The Great Kisser

Fiction. In David Evanier's new collection of stories, THE GREAT KISSER "There is a bloodshot intensity..., a drive to get hold of the world before it all gets lost, the streets, the rooms, the feeling of the times--the 60s and 70s--when personal and public life felt so terribly urgent. Evanier writes a muscular, watchful prose, and again and again he pulls it off, surprising his characters in t heir existential habitat--unsettled, confused, completely caught up in the act of becoming"--Sven Birkerts.