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Slimming Down and Other Stories
Slimming Down and Other Stories
Slimming Down and Other Stories
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The nine stories in this collection are, chronologically, about childhood, adolescence, youth and middle age.  All the stories locations are either centered in Japan or America both. In these stories, a lone boy encounters a policeman, the son of a failed writer struggles to be as great as Hemmingway, a young man and a woman have a short and intense affair on a train, An art dealer loses his love and cooks fish for the first time, A Japan scholar struggles in American academia, A Japanese professor battles with her rival as her daughter vanishes, An adulterous American starts a new life in Japan, A Long Island wife tries to get back her husband after he has run off to Japan.  Betrayal plays a central role in these stories about civil duty, avocation, love, marriage and friendship. There is despair and desperation in these stories but also hope, if only a faint hope.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAlex Shishin
Release dateNov 2, 2018
ISBN9781386530367
Slimming Down and Other Stories
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Alex Shishin

Alex Shishin has published fiction, non-fiction and photography in Japan, North America, and Europe in print and online. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Shishin is a permanent resident of Japan. Shishin is the author “Nippon 2357:A Utopian Ecological Tale,” and five other ebooks published exclusively by Smashwords and available for free. He is co-author with Stephan F. Politzer of “Four Parallel Lives of Eight Notable Individuals,” also published by Smashwords. Shishin's short story "Mr. Eggplant Goes Home," first published in “Prairie Schooner” received an O. Henry Award Honorable Mention and was anthologized in “Student Body: Stories About Students and Professors” (University of Wisconsin Press). His short story "Shades," originally published in “Sunday Afternoon” (Kobe) was anthologized in The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press) and reprinted by invitation in “The East” (Tokyo).  Shishin’s book “Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era” (a Russian-American memoir of a train odyssey through the Soviet Union and Poland) was published by iUniverse. It is available as a print-on-demand book and an ebook. Shishin has also published a collection of photographs entitled “Ordinary Strangeness” with Viovio in conjunction with his joint exhibition at the Twenty-first Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan. It is available from the publisher online. Alex Shishin holds degrees in English from the University of California, Berkeley (BA, Phi Beta Kappa) the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MFA) and the Union Institute and University (PhD).

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