Peter Duval
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Rear View: Stories
Peter Duval
Starkly honest, gritty, and at times darkly humorous, the fourteen stories in Pete Duval’s debut collection feature blue-collar workers, lapsed Catholics, bullies, and smalltime thieves struggling with their jobs, their relationships, and their families. Like the fiction of Richard Russo and Andre Dubus, many of Duval’s stories deal with both mundane and unexpected occurrences in a small working-class community.
In “Wheatback,” a visitor sits in the dark in a nursing home and has a strangely intimate conversation with a patient he has just met. “Bakery” gives…
