New York Lonely
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A Word About New York LonelyIn this collection of stories, New York Lonely, the late Rochelle Ratner presentsthe distillation in breadth and depth of the questions that were most powerfullyat work in both her unfolding as a remarkable individual and memorable poetand writer. There is a rare richness found in these tales, a vision composed ofironies and elegies, humor and unspeakable grief, as well as a grief that haslearned how to speak, and when to remain silent as a presence in the room, likeLorcas duende. If I were to make the usual literary comparisons, I might saythat one finds here the contextual mystery of Thomas Mann in combinationwith Tillie Olsons unblinking eye for the deep quotidian, gender fantasticallyrendered by Margret Atwood but here mediated by the shadow weave of StevenKing. Except this work is here and now, all in the moment; it is compellingwithout violence, erotic but never prurient. The angles on what may have beencovered before are here varied, and new. Consider: a young woman measuresher unfolding relationship to her new boyfriend through a kitten he introducesto the reigning household cat, Delilah; a man intent on buying a car ends uptrading in his wife; a dating service run by shrinks for the benefit of their clients;high school friends gathered at the funeral of a classmate who served in Iraqwonder about their lives as they examine old photos; a man selected for juryduty attempts to get close to a woman in the pool; a butcher talks about theworld as he sees it through the eyes of one who kills and butchers chickens;a woman in a Greenwich Village restaurant with the price tag dangling fromher sweater, becomes the subject of an imaginative rumination; and a womanstill in the hospital recovering from a hysterectomy watches a TV soap about awoman who has delivered a still-born fetus.There is no doubt that the arc of these stories traces that of the author, whocame to New York from Atlantic City as a woman in her ea
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