A gem….Sophisticated structurally and thematically, “The Wonder Singer” is also somehow humble, a quick read that, with its clear prose and impeccable pacing, seduces us into plot….like a great aria, it stays with you
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Through it all, the Wonder Singer holds her fans, and readers, in thrall with a tale that incorporates all of life’s notes, the high and the low
The Star Tribune
GEORGE RABASA
THE WONDER SINGER HARDCOVER
$24.95 | Fiction Hardcover | 6x9 | 336 pages
September 16, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-932961-56-0 | Carton Quantity: 24
EISBN: 978-1-93607-132-6
The wrong people keep trying to get hold of Lockwood these days. They beep his pager and his cell phone, leave messages on his voice mail and on Perla’s answering machine. Suddenly, he has a passel of writing assignments. No time, he says. I’m writing the story of my life.
Most insistently, Hollywood Hank wants to know why nobody was home when the courier showed up to pick up the tapes. “Where the hell are you? Where are the tapes?” He keeps asking, merely irritable at first, but later, his voice straining with frustration: “I paid for those tapes. I paid for Merc
George Rabasa has written Glass Houses, a collection of stories that received The Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for Excellence in Fiction and the Minnesota Book Award for Short Stories. His novel, Floating Kingdom received the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. Another novel, The Cleansing, was named a Book Sense Notable. His short fiction has appeared in various literary magazines, such as Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, The MacGuffin, South Carolina Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry, American Literary Review, and in several anthologies. Rabasa was born in Maine, raised in Mexico, and now lives in Minnesota.