Gayle Ridinger

The Prose of Other People's Lives Gayle Ridinger

Fiction. Short Stories. Twenty-three short stories, some no more than a page, most a page or two, a few more than five pages, set in America and Europe, deceptively simple, often with a twist. These sharp, nervy fragments of everyday inquietude twist and turn faster than ordinary prose would allow. Ridinger has found cunning ways to speed things up, as if nothing were more attractive than catastrophe.--Tim Parks From the very first pages you feel as if you are tiptoeing into the most intimate part of the human soul. These short stories delicately capture the secret inner worlds of ordinary people, making them extraordinary in their simplicity.--Maicol Formentelli