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Title: The Wheel of Desire and Other Intimate Hauntings by Gary Earl Ross ISBN: 0-595-09306-X Publisher: Writers Club Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thanks for the second helping!
Comment: This week, I took the time to re-read THE WEHEEL OF DESIRE...
Reading this collection of literary treats was like enjoying a second helping at a grand feast. The stories are sweet, juicy, sensual, robust, hearty and more. They fed my soul and my imagination. My second reading opened my eyes and my heart to a body of stories that is rich with emotions and perfectly seasoned by an author who knows how to appeal to all of the senses. In these stories, one can feel the texture of love; smell the odor of hate; see the color of damning defeat; and taste the sweetness of survival. I am so happy that I took the time, once again, to savor the flavor!
Rating: 5
Summary: From The Boox Review:
Comment: Ross' short story collection spotlights human connections as its common thread, skillfully drawing readers in to the inner folds of its own seductive resonance, hitting home often with a focus on universal themes of joy, pain, sex and wonder, but delving deeper still with peeks into the darker hallways of obsession and solitude.
Ross, an award-winning author of over a hundred short stories, poems, essays and articles, turns to loneliness in his opener here, 'Come Die in My Arms,' which features lead character Richard, who slips into his own dream world driven by an irresistible urge for companionship:
'I stare at her for an eternity. Even though I love her deeply and spend as much as a third of each day with her, I know Kari is not real. I am not mad. I have never accepted her as anything other than an intricate dream. Yet here she is, less than twenty feet away. This is not someone who resembles Kari. This is Kari ' the eyes into which I've gazed for hours, the cheeks upon which I've laid my fingertips, the body against which I've curled in the ecstatic dance of life.' 'The Painting,' another favorite, has the Serlingesque touch of a Twilight Zone classic, and features a nude, painted in oils, empowered with the gift of seduction: 'In the absence of reason he embraced her. In the absence of reason he lowered his lips to hers. But he clung to none of the differences between Elisa and her painted self. The shoulders were narrower, the breasts smaller than their renderings in oil. His fingertips stroked her belly, vaguely registered the absence of a C-section scar. His eyes found hers and saw no gold, could dive no deeper than the surface. However, in his urgency, her urgency, their urgency, none of that was important. Their union was the only reality.' Male energies flow freely throughout much of Ross' work, but he is a craftsman, able to achieve remarkable balance, and in deserve, therefore, of attention from all.
Rating: 4
Summary: Additional Reviews
Comment: Joan Albarella, author of Called To Kill, September 11, 2000, We get caught in The Wheel of Desire This collection of short stories does not easily seperate itself from the reader's own life. The collection lives. It moves. It breathes...often with hot, panting breaths. From the everyday couple next door to a dream stalker, old, young, ageless, fleeting, a kaleidoscope of men and women living simple lives,complicated, impossible, surreal, ordinary, and truncated lives. All climaxing in raw, basic, sensual, sexual, erotic, erratic emotions. Gary Ross draws us into each tale with his wonderful descriptive narrative. He teases us with provocative rising action and grabs our psyche with surprising climaxes. Then with literary elegance, he makes us shake our heads and rub the goose bumps on our arms as we try to shake off the clinging aftertaste of the denouement. This book is a keeper--better read like a nice cheesecake, in small savory bites.
A reviewer, a well read, well educated poet., May 26, 2000, On this book Deceptively simple , eminently readable prose masks an uncanny, often uncomfotable penetration into the odd corners of the humen psyche ( riddled with dark irony) in this collection of short stories. The effect is cumulative: by the end you realize you've just devoured some fine ideosyncratic tales, but the authorial voice's conviction lends an air of non fiction, and the 'closures' come at you from very left field. An unsettling experience of very strong work by a young new very fresh voice.
Also recommended: 'The complete works of an unknow poet' by anonymous
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