Light into Dark offers up a startling collection of stories ranging from the frivolous “Reductio ad absurdum” to the truly disturbing darkness of “A Modern Proposal.” Read “Cooking 101” without laughing; read “Nobody Stopped to Say Goodbye” without weeping; read “Gabriel” without recoiling from a horrifying vision of America.
Children, men in authority, women in hopeless situations: no one is spared in the riveting satires that comprise this collection of stories from the pen of Robert Joseph Foley, often compared to Flannery O’Connor and Sherwood Anderson. From the Clarion Review of A Little of This, A Lot of That: “There is an unmistakable lushness, almost an embarrassment of richness in Foley’s writing….No lover of piercing, tumultuous literature should miss it.”
Robert Joseph Foley is a retired teacher of English and Drama. He has directed close to 150 plays in the New York area and lives with his wife of fifty-three years in Westchester County and Hilton Head, South Carolina. He is the proud father of Dr. Robert Lawrence Foley and Trish Lennon as well as …
Learn MoreEnter a world where satire stings, fiction twists, and every story unsettles. This collection grips your imagination and refuses to let go. ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9798369437957ISBN 13 (HARD): 9798369437940ISBN 13 (eBook): 9798369437964
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