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Ticket to a Lonely Town (Paperback)

by Bruce Henricksen (Author)
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I love poetic prose, and that's what Bruce Henricksen dishes out. And he's funny, too. -- Judy Conner, author of Southern Fried Divorce (Gotham Books, 2005)

We who have admired Henricksen in the literary magazines are delighted to have his excellent stories collected in a book. -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.

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In his debut collection of short stories, Bruce Henricksen conjures up a world of beautiful losers searching for grace in the cosmic joke that is urban life. All of these stories have been previously anthologized in leading literary journals.

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  • Paperback: 153 pages
  • Publisher: Atomic Quill Press (September 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0976053535
  • ISBN-13: 978-0976053538
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #138,314 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Literary Fiction at its Best, December 9, 2005
These are wonderful stories of longing and hope sprinkled with humor and regret. Henricksen's style is lyrical and vivid, and his depictions of New Orleans, Minneapolis, and other locales bring today's America to life. For reades who enjoy discovering a new author of real iterary power, this book is an unanticipated gem.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Ticket Worth The Price Of Admission, July 2, 2006
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The storied lives of Henricksen's characters include lovers who regret their failed romances, husbands and wives who regret their failed marriages, fathers and mothers who regret how they failed their children. One, attempting to speak to his deceased wife, as "if dust could speak to smoke," says to her, "I wish that we could slip back, as on a trail of ancient starlight falling through time, and begin the story again."

Rather than wallow in self-pity, they attempt to reinvent themselves in the same manner in which one couple's old schoolhouse has become converted into a thriving commercial enterprise.

Some of Henricksen's characters appear in more than one story, giving the book a novelistic quality. In one story you see a character from his own and often delusional point of view. In a following story you see him again from the eyes of other characters.

Together, the characters form an ensemble of loveable losers who have made important bad choices while attempting to make up their lives. Their bad choices are important because they become lessons learned. But as much as they strive to invent and reinvent their lives, they often discover what they have become was not what they had intended.

These are poignant stories whose characters help us behold and feel their failures, shame, and isolation. They are poets who don't know it, poets whose innate sense of humor often helps them endure their pathetic human circumstances, poets who help us attain or regain awareness of who and where we are within the human comedy.

The book concludes with a personal essay in which Henricksen admits his characters are often aspects of himself and "choice slices of my own life." By writing short stories he discovered how "fact and make-believe are allowed to share a bed."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ticket To a Lonely Town is worth your time. , December 30, 2007
After reading "After the Floods" by the same Author I read this one and found it equally very enjoyable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read!
Fantastic book with very realistic insights into character's regrets. Each short story ends leaving the reader wanting more.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Like butter or better . . . .
This is just the smoothest prose. I loved this book, it was a joy to read.
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