ANYWHERE BUT HER, NEW FICTION BOOK BY PITTSBURGH AUTHOR D. HERRLE, TO BE OFFICIALLY RELEASED JULY 26TH, 2003

Soon to be available at Amazon.com, B&N.com, etc., and select bookstores and libraries, ANYWHERE BUT HER is NOW offered at pre-release discount if ordered straight from Publish America.

An old man becomes an enlightened Window-Smasher; a Medusavenus hides her heavenly voice; a seductress humbles a young painter; grandmother remembers the lover she never knew or loved; the Smoking Queen just misses clarity; a girl preserves her fleshly dignity; and a man regains respect for monogamy.

ANYWHERE BUT HER is a collection of short prose pieces and narrative sketches, bound together by recurring themes and fixation on particular humans moral conflicts. Ranging from one-paragraph sketches to more lengthy stories, the work fluctuates: from objectivity to extreme subjectivity, from omniscience to almost biographical focus, and from youth to old age. The reader is taken on a voyeuristic tour of twenty-three situations.

Stylistically, the book is primarily based on rhythm and sound and believable tension resulting from the structure. A familiar cadence surfaces regularly throughout the work, from brief adagios to thick prestos. The designs purpose is to artfully reveal variable pathos through a medium more subtle than a continuous novel. Though the book begins with a broodsome, rigid, foreboding statement, the conclusion offers a lulling, fluid, hopeful prospect of reborn dreams. Psychology is primarily depicted; essential details outweigh meticulous descriptions; and resonance is fostered by the author.

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