Synopsis/blurb…..
Two teenage boys on
the make, looking for love and a quick score cross paths with a desperate woman
on the run. A blazing inferno and a shootout change their lives forever in Fire
In The Sky!
In case it has escaped anyone’s attention, I am shamelessly
padding the numbers with a lot of short fiction in order to try and hit my year
end reading target of 120 books of various lengths and types. Another new
author then in Joel Goldman, a three
time Edgar Award nominee and the
co-founder of Brash Books.
Fire in the Sky………is
a short (obviously) tale set in a small town in America during the depression. Goldman
packs a lot into this tale…….. friendship, lust, desire, fair-grounds, stunted
prospects, bank robbers, a children’s home, fire, panic, gun play, hospitals,
death and in a satisfying conclusion, a seizure of opportunity and the prospects
of a brighter future as our adolescent hero takes a giant step towards manhood.
Possibly a missed chance here by Goldman as I kind of feel
there was enough of a storyline going on that it deserved a longer treatment.
That said a great introduction to another new-to-me author.
4 from 5
Joel Goldman’s website is here. You can acquire this story
free by signing up to his newsletter, which is how I happened by it. Definitely
an author I’ll read more from in the future.
Col - Sometimes those plots about chance meetings can really develop into great stories. Glad you enjoyed this one.
ReplyDeleteMargot cheers, definitely an author I want to sample more from in the future.
DeleteYou are racing through these short ones! And the author obviously fitted a lot in. Maybe I'd look at another of his works...
ReplyDeleteI might try something longer in 2015, depending on if I finally impose an embargo but still allow myself the odd bit of incoming
DeleteCol, thanks for this review. I'm signing up for Joel Goldman's newsletter and downloading the short story.
ReplyDeletePrashant, I hope you enjoy it when you read.
DeleteI checked out the author's website, and it looks like his novels are doing well, and are well review on Amazon. I might give one of his series a try when I can fit a new author in.
ReplyDeleteI did the same as you and looked up his all his books and the reaction to them, but I couldn't choose - in some ways spoiled for choice. I like the sound of all of them and the fact that they aren't too long at this current stage is more of an enticement than if one series was 10 books in length.
DeleteI did the same with his Brash Books publishing partner - Lee Goldberg and did buy a few of his, which I'm looking forward to.