WILLIAM LYCHACK is the author of the novel The Wasp Eater. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize, and on public radio's This American Life.
"[Lychak's] pieces cover an impressive range of emotional and
imaginative territory... The disciplined storytelling and barbed
wit strike a fine balance."
-Kirkus Reviews "In this dazzling collection William Lychak moves
with equal ease between fabulism and realism as he conjures up his
alluring characters, their troubles and delights. The resulting
stories are precise, exhilarating, sometimes wonderfully funny and
always beautiful. I love being transported to so many different
worlds."
- Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street "The Architect of
Flowers is a stunning collection. Each story is like a brilliant
dream, evanescent, yet managing to linger in all the senses long
after the last page has been turned. It is a poetry of narrative
rarely ever found in fiction."
- Mary McGarry Morris, The River Queen "Derek Walcott says he
writes verse in the hope of writing poetry. Something similar might
be said about the fiction in William Lychack's THE ARCHITECT OF
FLOWERS. The prose rises to a level of intense lyricism that
distinguishes this lovely, artful collection."
- Stuart Dybek, Sailed With Magellan "The small failings between
parents and children, the long-held secrets in married lives, the
darkening of old age interrupted unexpected flashes of hope: with
the hand of a master, William Lychack searches out the ignored
moments of ordinary life and burnishes them into treasures. This
collection is a treasury. I loved it."
- Vestal McIntyre, You Are Not The One --
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