Virtue Always Triumphs Or Life In The Wicked City

Author : Clifford Browder
Publisher : Clifford Browder
ISBN 13 : 173337826X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Wicked City written by Clifford Browder and published by Clifford Browder. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifford Browder’s Wicked City is a collection of short fiction featuring a wide range of people surviving, and trying to fully realize themselves, in turbulent nineteenth-century New York. Among them are:

• An ambitious young man given the rare opportunity to marry his boss’s daughter and advance in the firm, the only drawback being his secret preference for brief sexual encounters with men;
• A cartman hired to transport the anatomical collection of a respected professor of surgery, including a corpse in embalming fluid that, if discovered by the public, might well cause a riot;
• A young Chinaman who witnesses the murder of a compatriot and must decide how to survive and thrive among these savage round-faced barbarians;
• A woman so unnerved by the sinister growth of her garden that she asks her pastor to perform a full-blown exorcism;
• A ragpicker trudging the streets in a snowstorm who fights off drowsiness and fatigue with grandiose fantasies, bitter memories, and a desperate plea to her deceased mother for healing;
• A buckskinned Westerner with a Sioux arrow through his hat who dazzles the city with his stories of grizzlies and buffalo hunts and wild women, while limping sometimes with one leg and sometimes with the other.