1 Day's Perfect Weather: More Twice Told Tales

by Daniel Stern

In this collection, Stern s third, he returns to the literary adventure he began in "Twice Told Tales" and continued in "Twice ""Upon"" a Time"weaving fresh modern tales from the thematic threads of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870744453
• ISBN13: 9780870744457
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

stern tells it twice again

Daniel Stern has done it again with this next volume of his "twice told tales," re-visitations of poems and stories and symphonies which he manages to transform into gorgeous fictions. These are not mere dramatizations; they are full metamorphoses. In a hilarious example, the story "A Man of Sorrows and Acquainted with Grief," Stern uses Bach's THE PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN to leap into, of all things, small-town born-again Christian Texas...as seen from the point-of-view of a Jewish high-school orchestra director who gets pulled over for speeding on the interstate. The stories also "riff" off of Robert Frost poems, Wallace Stevens' "The Man on the Dump", W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming" and even Borges. These are stylish and smart, always moving and masterfully composed. Bravo, Stern!