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Welcome to the Huck
Fairman web site.
My
newest novels: TALES OF THE CITY
(two novels) St. Mary's Bar & Slipshod Watchman
Synopses:
Slipshod Watchman (186 pages)
Set in New York City's West Village, this story of loss rides the events
and emotions that first brought the love of a lifetime to a young,
off-Broadway actor, and then wrenched it away. Within the same timeframe,
friendship between the actor and an African-American neighbor and her
teenage daughter is abruptly terminated by the woman's brutal murder. In
attempting to clarify his role in both tragedies, and to come to some
acceptance of it, the actor reviews the two, intertwined histories,
frequently appropriating language and lines from classical plays he has
performed - identifying particularly with murderous Macbeth. Erupting, also,
into his narrative and into the investigation of the murder, comes his own
version of a Rasta character, serving as conscience, commentator, and
confessor. As the actor attempts to reach the roots of these losses
and unravel the contributing circumstance, the language he adapts and wraps
himself in comes to incarnate the emotions, worlds, and conflicts that
events have unexpectedly bound together.
St. Mary's Bar (237 pages)
This ensemble story of nine friends who meet weekly in a Soho bar opens
one night when one member arrives pale and distraught from witnessing an
African-American neighbor mistakenly arrested and then humiliated by the
police. Most of the friends react with disbelief and outrage. Some want to
confront the police immediately, while others recommend a measured response.
A number of them choose to return, through a gathering storm, to the
precinct, to find out what happened, avow the victim's innocence, and appeal
for speedy redress. But they are rebuffed and turned away. What follows,
over the next twenty-four hours, are the friends' efforts to learn what
happened, find out how the fellow is, and get him released. Their
reflections and efforts, expressed in their individual styles of speech,
result in unforeseen encounters and re-evaluations of their lives,
relationships, and beliefs. Returning the following day to their work, they
come to see that the impact of the arrest extends far beyond the immediate
issues and irrevocably colors their lives.
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Other novels by Huck
Fairman
Hymn
Synopsis:

At the end of a long, cold winter in New York City, Christine Howth, a
freelance journalist, mourns the loss of her father while contemplating the
first anniversary of her divorce. It is time for her, at age thirty, to halt
her drift. A first step is to begin a journal as a vehicle for reflection
and a means of experimenting with writing as she undertakes a first novel. A
reconsideration of her career is next, as her part-time work is not paying
the rent. <<read more>>
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