The Man Who Built Boxes and other stories by Frank Tavares

Title: The Man Who Built Boxes and other stories
Author: Frank Tavares
Price: FREE till Jan 17,2014
Rating: 4.5 out of 5.0(4)

“Each story is a minor masterpiece of the writer’s craft.” Midwest Book Review
Debut short story collection by an already accomplished storyteller

In these twelve stories, you’ll meet a remarkable cast of complex, quirky characters tangled up in the limits they’ve put on their lives. Driven by love or loneliness, like the man in the title, they’ve boxed themselves in. Frank Tavares tells their stories with humor and compassion. And while the themes may be familiar””crumbling marriages, feuding neighbors, sparring business partners, and the endless searching for what might have been””here they become fresh, unpredictable, and surprising. This exciting debut collection from a first-rate storyteller will haunt and fascinate you long after you finish reading. You may never look at a chance pick-up in a bar the same way again.

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