The Voice of America: Stories

by Rick DeMarinis

A collection of stories about modern life in America features characters struggling to maintain their grip on sanity despite the ravages of depression, boredom, illness, middle age, and a faltering economy

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, American

215 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 1991

About the author

Rick DeMarinis (1934-) is an American novelist and short-story writer.

Reviews

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there's this one kirkus review that calls my guy ricky d.'s fiction "workmanlike" that really sticks in my craw... like, when you can have a taut psychodrama about a couples outing to a hot spring in the same collection as the remembrances of a teenage ice cream vendor mugged for his wares on v-j day in the same collection as the tale of a guy being stalked all his life by lightning (& becoming magnetized such that hairpins follow him from room to room) & none of the above gives you that "what's this doing here" feeling, i think you've kinda transcended workmanlike. i could say a lot more about, e.g., how he exposes & indicts economic inequality in america but it's 90 degrees rn so i'll just scream "read rick demarinis" once more into the void. namaste