more interested in the "long haul' than the transcendent moment, that epiphany which is the province of the poet and the young writer." Smith's comment distinguishes the new stories from the previously published ones in Mrs. Smith states in her interview with A! Magazine that ". Many of Smith's stories in this collection dissect relationships. The brevity of the short story commands a writer interested in realistic fiction to perform a literary sleight-of-hand to conjure characters reminiscent of real people and their predicaments. Thus, these stories allow the reader to laugh, cry, and experience truth as only fiction can. Successful writers understand, as Smith does, that real people are quirky and complex. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger: New and Selected Stories, contains seven stories from two previous collections and seven new ones.įor a reader who enjoys quirky yet complex characters in fiction, these stories fit the bill.
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