Title:

Straightjacket & Tie

Author:

Eugene Stein

Price:

19.95, hardvocer

ISBN:

0395670314

Publisher:

Ticknor & Fields

Category:

Novel

Description:

Mr. Stein addresses a domestic tragedy by surrounding it with the ongoing rush of life, the terrors of personal growth and a profound indebtness to those people and things which are the occasion of loss and grief.  Stein arrives at a central truth about the way humans suffer - sidelong glances, interference, understatement, irony and fantasy are the way some of us encounter pain and continue, and these strategies are no less courageous for all that they appear to be indirect.