Oprah Magazine Review of The Man Back There
Fri, 11 Dec 2009
The Man Back There and Other Stories
By David Crouse
Looking back in anger, the men in David Crouse's second collection of
short fiction acknowledge “the simple fact that there [is] danger in
the world,” that it sometimes resides in their own fists, clenching
and unclenching. Like Barry, the loveless, regretful dogcatcher in
“The Castle on the Hill,” characters in The Man Back There (Sarabande)
also give in to bouts of tenderness. Crouse makes you believe, if not
in miracles, then in life after the implosion of the heart.
- Cathleen Medwick