Contrary Motion by Andy Mozina

Contrary Motion by Andy Mozina

Matthew Grzbc is just your average newly divorced dad. He shares custody of his six-year-old daughter. He may still be in love with his ex-wife. He believes he probably doesn t deserve his sexy, successful, driven girlfriend. And he plays the harp that s his job.

When his father dies unexpectedly (he has a heart attack while listening to a meditation CD), Matt is forced to confront his own mortality and the fleeting nature of life he questions everything, from his romantic attachments to his professional aspirations.

When he earns an audition for the principle harp chair in a first-rate orchestra just the kind of life-changing development he could use right now he is poised to seize the opportunity but then his ex-wife gets engaged, his girlfriend grows distant, his daughter seems to be having the 6-year-old version of an emotional breakdown, he learns things about his father s life that make him question everything he thought he knew about the man, and then even his harp starts to betray him.

Andy Mozina is associate professor of English at Kalamazoo College and author of Joseph Conrad and the Art of Sacrifice. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines including Tin House, the Massachusetts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fence, West Branch, Beloit Fiction Journal, and the Florida Review. This collection was a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and Mozina's short story The Women Were Leaving the Men received special mention in The Pushcart Prize (2006) and was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2005.

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ISBN 13	9780812998283
ISBN 10	0812998286
Title	Contrary Motion
Author	Andy Mozina
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Spiegel & Grau
Year published	2016-03-08
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.