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|  | | Past-Due Pastorals
The 14 essays in this tidy little volume cover a lot of ground -- the search for self and deeper meaning in familial relationships, the wonderful risk that is love, finding your way back to old friends and old places, and coming to terms with life as it is. And then there's the most harrowing essay, The Motorcycle Crash, which vividly tells of a late-summer's ride gone terribly wrong.
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Edward Stanton is 39. He's grappling with mental illness. He's a virgin. He doesn't trust anything he can't verify. And he lives alone in a house in Billings, Montana, largely shutting out the world and sticking to the few things he can rely on: the data he keeps, and his trusty videotaped episodes of the '60s cop show Dragnet.
But over the course of 25 days -- 600 hours -- events begin to draw Edward out and force him to confront a question: Can he deal with life on its terms, or will he remain behind his closed door, a solitary soul in a city of 100,000 people?
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