title: What They Tell You to Forget: A Novella and Stories (Princeton Theol.Dead Sea Ser. Project)
author: Fred Pfeil
description: Winner of Pushcart's annual Editors' Book Award, this debut collection of seven beautifully written stories unflinchingly embraces reality in all its contradictions, failures, confusions, ragged edges. "A Buffalo, New York Story" splices Life magazine snippets and memories of Hollywood movies to evoke a 13-year-old's adolescence as molded by his workaholic storeowner father and stern grandfather in the Cold War era of Sputnik and fallout shelters. Pfeil's adventurous technique also enlivens "Dirty Pieces," whose callous protagonist beds his girlfriend's best friend and pursues casual sexual encounters that he rates in terms of erotic fantasies generated by flesh magazines. Pfeil seamlessly fuses the personal and political. In "The Angel of Dad," 35-year-old campus activist and bookstore clerk Max the Rad struggles to make a revolution and converses with the reappearing ghost of his sardonic, witheringly disapproving father. "Almost Like Falling," the collection's novella, portrays a stressed-out single mother's one-night stand with a laid-off, alcohol-glazed Cleveland factory worker who's visiting Boston. Pfeil's stories are funny, touching, flint-hard and tender. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  To: Emerson Pearce Sullivan
  I didn’t know my heart was missing
  a piece until I held you in my arms.
  To my readers,
  When I completed the Sea Breeze series I knew one day this
  story would be told. However, I imagined it being many years
  from now. When I completed the Rosemary Beach series I
  knew it was going to be sooner than I expected.
  
  Nate Finlay and Bliss York were in my head. I could hear their
  voices and their story was unfolding. I began to get excited
  thinking of returning to the characters and places of two of my
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