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Reading: Randolph Splitter: Birth Pangs
About Birth Pangs:
Peter Kovacs teaches part-time at a community college and tends bar to make ends meet. When a newborn baby is found alive in a trash can in an alley next to the school, Peter tries to find out what happened. A parallel narrative––one that eventually intersects the main story––recounts a Japanese high school student's growing alienation from his life of pointless striving. Birth Pangs is a literary mystery about abandonment, home, and family triggered by the discovery of a baby in an alley.
In addition to Birth Pangs, Randolph Splitter has published four books, ranging from a work of literary criticism (recently reissued by Routledge) to three works of fiction, including a literary/historical novel about Jewish refugees from Vienna in the late 1930s called The Third Man ("an artful, tremendously absorbing novel, rich with the humanity of its characters, exquisitely told"—Elizabeth McKenzie). He has also published short stories, made short films, and written full-length screenplays. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley; taught college English for many years; and currently lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he continues to write.
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