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An Off-White Christmas Hardcover - Collector's Limited Edition

An Off-White Christmas Hardcover – Collector’s Limited Edition

By: Donald G. Evans October 19, 2018 hardcover | 190 pgs. collector's edition

$55.00

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An Off-White Christmas features a dozen stories all set on or around Christmas

    Author

  • Donald G. Evans

    Donald G. Evans is the author of the novel Good Money After Bad and editor of Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year; his short stories have been published in a variety of literary journals. He is the Founding Executive Editor of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, has been listed four times in the Newcity Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago feature, and received the Chicago Writers Association’s Spirit Award for lifetime achievement. He won a residency at Saltonstall Arts Colony and was an artist-in-residence at Cliff Dwellers Club. He lives just outside Chicago with his... Read More

Summary

An Off-White Christmas features a dozen stories all set on or around Christmas, though with little to no clear religious emphasis. Instead, these stories explore life changes and choices and chaos in times of heightened drama, when family and friends and life partners merge to form cohesive units, happy or otherwise. The stories range from a gambling spree in Las Vegas to a caravan traveling to Baraboo; from a teepee hotel in Kentucky to a retro movie theatre in Arizona; from a jolly Santa lookalike to a frustrated Dickensian actor; from students to retirees. Christmas, in these stories, is a character as much as a setting—it acts upon and with plot to create tension, but each story is unique. It’s hardly all sugar plums and pure white flakes, but always there’s that hope. Just as the notion of a “white Christmas” evokes well worn traditions of the holiday, these dozen “un-white Christmas” stories introduce potential traditions that could expand and augment the Christmas spirit.

Each Limited Edition Hardcover will be individually signed by the author and include:

– Foil embossed cover
– Beautiful 3D spot varnished dust jacket

Illustrations by Hannah Jennings.

Hannah Jennings has designed and illustrated countless books, websites, and signs that interpret exhibits in zoos and museums. The focus of her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was her artist’s books; she now teaches design at Dominican University. She is past president of the Society for Experiential Graphic Design. Her love of design, making images, and Christmas is apparent in her non-traditional online advent calendars; see them with her other illustrations at HannahJennings.com.

Reviews

  • With offhand grace and humor, Evans captures the characters’ burning desires to escape from in-between stages of their lives and their disappointment at the outcome. Illustrations by Hannah Jennings throughout the book resemble ornaments that could hang on a Christmas tree.
    Katie Burns, Newcity Lit
  • The stories in Don Evans’s excellent collection, An Off-White Christmas, are full of witty, humane moments, vivid characters and settings that range from Chicago to Syracuse to Las Vegas. The people you’ll meet here are your friends, your neighbors, your relatives—in all their flawed beauty and pathos. This book is not to be missed.

    Christine Sneed, author of Little Known Facts and Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry
  • Don Evans can get the streets to talk as if they’re telling their own stories. One hears in his work an immediately recognizable offhand tone that rings true, empathetic, street smart, and very funny.

    Stuart Dybek, author of A Neighborhood and Other Stories, The Coast of Chicago, I Sailed with Magellan, Streets in Their Own Ink, Paper Lanterns, and Ecstatic Cahoots
  • Donald Evans has a great ear and a light touch and together they lead An Off-White Christmas in unpredictable directions. Underlying what’s funny in these stories are real families, friends and lovers colliding or coming together in what promises, but doesn’t always turn out to be, the season of good cheer.

    Rosellen Brown, author of Street Games, Before and After, Half a Heart and others

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