Winner of the Second Annual Tartts First Fiction Award. These stories explore the darker side of human nature and loss, moving from broken gamblers on the run to small time hold?up crooks and their disconsolate lovers. The settings, too, are varied: Atlantic City, Key West, upstate New York, and?for many of the stories?the parks, playgrounds, and streets of the Bronx. Place, like loss, is also a transformative force. Both place and loss live inside Cioffari's characters to shape desire and the actions that derive from desire.

A History of Things Lost or Broken

Literature & Fiction

Cioffari, Philip

United States

Swallows Tale Pr

<p>Fiction. Winner of the Second Annual Tartts First Fiction Award. These stories explore the darker side of human nature, moving from broken gamblers on the run to small time hold-up artists and disconsolate lovers. The settings are varied: Atlantic City, Key West, upstate New York, and--for many of the stories--the parks, playgrounds and streets of the Bronx. Place, like loss, is also a transformative force. It lives inside Cioffari's characters, shapes desire and the actions that derive from desire.</p>

A History of Things Lost or Broken: Stories

Livingston Press

Jesusville

When Joshua Farley--a cult figure searching for an hallucinogenic plant rumored to allow the user to see God--disappears under mysterious circumstances, his disciples gather in the New Mexico desert to await his return.But they aren't the only ones looking for him and the legendary plant.Other desperate people have also made the trek to this remote section of the world: a disillusioned journalist hoping to restore his lost faith; a small-time hood on the lam from the mob; Farley's disinherited son; a teenage sexpot who claims to be Farley's mistress; and a gang of mobsters come to even an old score.They meet in a darkly comic, twenty-first century equivalent of Judgment Day.

Livingston Pr

When Joshua Farley--a cult figure searching for an hallucinogenic plant rumored to allow the user to see God--disappears under mysterious circumstances, his disciples gather in the New Mexico desert to await his return. But they aren't the only ones looking for him and the legendary plant. Other desperate people have also made the trek to this remote section of the world: a disillusioned journalist  hoping to restore his lost faith; a small-time hood on the lam from the mob; Farley's disinherited son; a teenage sexpot who claims to be Farley's mistress; and a gang of mobsters come to even an old score.They meet in a darkly comic, twenty-first century equivalent of Judgment Day.

The Bronx Kill

Fiction. Five teenagers attempt to swim the East River from the Bronx to Queens. One boy drowns and the body of the only girl is never found. The survivors vow silence. Five years later, they find themselves at the mercy of the drowned boy's brother, a corrupt NYPD detective.

Genre Fiction

If Anyone Asks, Say I Died from the Heartbreaking Blues

Catholic Boys

A detective, unable to forgive himself for the death of his son, investigates the death by hanging of a schoolboy the same age, in a Bronx housing project in 1960. Mystery/Thriller/Literary

Two years ago, when Alex Ramsey lost his son, his wife took to gin and he lost his job with the city police force. Now he's working as a security guard for a burgeoning high-rise apartment complex, figuring the worst he'll encounter will be marital disputes and drunks. But the body of a boy just the age his son would have been is found beaten, raped, and hung by a river flowing through the grounds. Graffiti in Building Five indicates more is to come. Who's responsible? A local motorcycle gang? Teenage hoodlums, the Brando's? A delusional fisherman? Or is the conspiracy more pervasive?

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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A History of Things Lost or Broken

A History of Things Lost or Broken: Stories

Jesusville

Jesusville

The Bronx Kill

The Bronx Kill

If Anyone Asks, Say I Died from the Heartbreaking Blues

Catholic Boys

Catholic Boys