Moments of Light1980

Moments of Light proves that the mythic powers of the balladeer and the story teller survive even in this fragmented and unmysterious day. In the eleven stories gathered here, Fred Chappell engages and entertains our minds and sends us away singing in our hearts, more knowing, more understanding of ourselves. Fred Chappell's voice is sure and his vision is keen. As Annie Dillard writes in the foreword: ""These are living, vivid narratives whose rich actions lodge in the imagination: world-wise and gentle Mr. Cody blowing upa a tree; Norma, the drunk in love with innocence, quoting Shakespeare's sonnets in her ruined rooms; young Rosemary in the hayloft sticking her underpants under the hay; Mrs. Franklin pleased and bewildered at her own dinner party; and Stovebolt Johnson playing the...