"Fresh and alert, these stories of people engaging, meeting, dealing with their needs and desires. A rich experience reading about others who so often reflect ourselves."
-Richard Lyons
, author of the novels
The Edge of Things
and
Divisible by One
and the collection of short stories,
A Wilderness of Love and Faith
"
Santa Barbara
, Russ Desaulnier's sixth collection, has a subtle, quiet way of delving into quixotic relationships and transitory affairs that were part of Southern California in the sixties and seventies.
The Old Topanga Road
,
The Unravished Bride
Sin City
stand out for touching the bittersweet sides of romance."
-Dan Armstrong
, author of
The Eyes of Archimedes Trilogy
and the novels
Princeton Charlie's Got the Blues
Stella
is both a location and a state of mind, a place where the characters in these stories find and lose love, venture both awkwardly and gracefully through new experiences, make bold escapes, and discover the limits of fidelity, gratitude and courage. They are, to use a fine phrase from these pages, "strangers in a changed town."
-Ross West
, Author of the short story collection,
The Fragile Blue Dot