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Parallel Lines and the Hockey Universe
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by Grant Tracey
Sales Rank: 2018527
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List Price: $12.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 198 pages
Published by: Pocol Press March 5, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1929763131
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1929763139
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
About The Author
Grant Tracey is Fiction Editor of the North American Review and he and his wife are Associate Professors of English at the University of Northern Iowa.
Reader Reviews
I was about three-quarters of the way through Grant Tracey's "Parallel Lines and the Hockey Universe" today when I realized I didn't want it to ever end. It was after finishing the brief story "Dragonflies" - one of 21 pieces in the collection. The last sentence of this poignant, short work draws all that has happened (and there is much; and what formidable literary skill: to pack so much into the short-story form) to a hopeful, peaceful truce. A young hockey player has been tutoring a third-grader on her school report on dragonflies. Her father, the night previous, has left her and her mother. The young tutor is trying to make sense of this - for her, for himself - invoking what he knows without doubt, without mitigation: the game of hockey. Of dragonflies, Tracey writes, "Isaiah hoped that maybe on the way to the car they'd see them, thousands, hovering silently." Tracey had me in this collection long before that closing line, but that was the moment I didn't want his new book from Pocol Press to end. And it summed up much of what Tracey's work presented to me as a reader: the values, struggles, low-hanging skies, victories, honesty, wonder and clarity of meaning that emanates from the geographic center of the North American continent. A coach who cares deeply about not only the kids on his team, but for those on another who must forfeit because their funding has dried up. A grocer who refuses - even at the height of hard times - to buy black-market meat because it lacks the government stamp to prove its fitness for his customers. Two teenagers who come to that awful and wonderful precipice: a first kiss. Coaches, lovers, friends, immigrants... everything and everyone real and sensate and unpretentious about life. You want Zambonis and Led Zeppelin? Cross-checkings and coach-ejectings? Heartache and deep, faithful love. You want them all at once, in just the right dose? Read Tracey's book and see if you feel the same way I do: that a follow-up couldn't come quickly enough.
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