Going to Meet the Man Maggie Mulvena Pearson Ambrose Bierce's The Eyes of

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remains unjustly obscure

these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed

author of The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Going to Meet the Man Maggie Mulvena Pearson Ambrose Bierce's The Eyes ofThere's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it. The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down and out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be