Collected Stories

By Harry Mark Petrakis

Book Overview

The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of the form. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each story in this collection. In The Passing of the Ice, Polish icemen suffer the fate of some great doomed Greek line. In The Song of Rhodanthe a fleeting vision of love flowers within a grim social prison. In The journal of a Wife Beater an insufferable chauvinist male discovers to his horror and bodily peril, that is wife is younger and stronger than he is.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595378439
• ISBN13: 9780595378432
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Engaging

I believe Harry he is a great writer! Very underrated. You will read just the first few stories and be amazed that you have not heard of him. "Dark Eye" is a haunting story.

Petrakis' flair for the short story is fantastic!

The stories are ripe with the feeling and culture of the greek movement to America.