{"product_id":"home-plate-was-the-heart-other-stories-9781733702553","title":"Home Plate Was The Heart \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHome Plate Was The Heart \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, Joseph Milosch deftly accomplishes the poetic economy and emotional epiphany that writers of flash fiction regularly strive for but only rarely achieve. There is an earthy authenticity to Milosch's work, bone-true and honest. These are stories about tough working class people with frangible souls: a truck driver's wife dying of cancer wonders if her husband truly loves her when he's gone so much; renegade soldiers return from Nam addicted to heroin; angry fathers and rebellious sons face off gripping hammers in their hands; a dying woman's husband gives her a heart-shaped box of Valentine's day candy with divorce papers tucked inside. Baseball often serves as a blueprint showing immigrants how to become Americans. Milosch's imagery is fresh and spot-on, as with the dancing girl whose \"footsteps kept time like the beating of a pack of Camels against the palm of a young man.\" It's a fine collection that offers the reader a happy marriage of poetry and fiction. - William Luvaas, author of \u003cem\u003eGoing Under\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAshes Rain Down: A Story Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13283351\"\u003eJoseph D. Milosch\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poetic Matrix Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733702553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733702555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Poetic Matrix Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43830734127243,"sku":"9781733702553","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_4d8df720-6867-4dae-8a19-66c605643b6e.jpg?v=1755584536","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/home-plate-was-the-heart-other-stories-9781733702553","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}