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portada Seeing the Light
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
186
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x1.2 cm
Weight
0.35 kg.
ISBN13
9781733540087

Seeing the Light

Rick Williams (Author) · Poets Choice Publishing · Paperback

Seeing the Light - Williams, Rick

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Synopsis "Seeing the Light"

SEEING THE LIGHT has as its cover a beautiful portrait of a young soldier whose face is illuminated with inspiration and human compassion. It could be the face of the young medic in the first story of the book, "The Girl in the Oxygen Tent." The boy is disenchanted with the senseless war in Vietnam and finds solace in his love for the young girl who has become his patient. It is a careful description of the Vietnamese culture and the soldier's coming to terms with the pointlessness of this war. When his patient dies, he attends the funeral at some personal risk, and the story simply ends it seems, with no resolution. Like the war itself, there is no answer to the senselessness of death, and the death his country is inflicting on this culture.Many of Rick's stories seem to end this way. He seems to be saying there is nothing to be done in the face of such absurdity. At one point in an email, the author writes that none of the characters in his stories see the light. But the lucky thing for a reader is that he has written these stories, has seen the light through his talent as a storyteller. One thinks of Tolstoy's "Death Ivan Ilyich," and the courage it took Tolstoy to write of a man who realizes as he lies dying, that his life has meant nothing; but who, by the end, achieves insight and spiritual awakening. Often, the stories end with no explanation, Beckett like, with mysterious, ominous characters waiting silently, like fate for no particular reason.

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