$19.99
Going Too Fast is a masterfully composed collection of distinct but interrelated stories whose characters teeter on the fine edge between adolescence and adulthood. With arresting attention to detail, humor, and poignancy, Viti’s stories of love, loss, friendship, and family will resonate long after you’ve read them.
–Anne M. Brubaker, Wellesley College
The stories in Going Too Fast are both poetic and truthful, as Viti weaves together the prosaic and the extraordinary. In so doing, she moves her readers in and out of time. Like her characters, the stories have their feet in two worlds. Like a “tightrope artist,” the author delights, provokes, and entertains her readers in this shimmering new collection.
–Heather Corbally Bryant, Wellesley College, author, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper
“In these beautifully crafted stories, Lynne Viti lets readers effortlessly enter the world of the characters – whether it’s a 1960’s Manhattan college campus or the “wide cinder stub of a road” in Baltimore. Readers will appreciate Viti’s impeccable use of detail, her clear language, and the even-tempered, retrospective tone of her prose. These stories resonate; they stick around like fragments and figures of one’s own past.”
–Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Author of The True History of Paradise and The Pirate’s Daughter
Going Too Fast
by Lynne Viti
$19.99, full-length, paper
978-1-64662-173-6
2020
Lynne Viti‘s recent publications are Baltimore Girls (2017), The Glamorganshire Bible (2018), Finishing Line Press, and microchapbooks Punting (2017) and Dreaming Must Be Done in the Daytime (2019),Origami Poems Project. She received Honorable Mentions in the WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest (2018 and 2019). She blogs at stillinschool.wordpress.com.
Marcia Goldsmith –
Tales of young women growing up and entering adulthood, in Baltimore, Stamford, New York and Boston. Several prize winning stories, recognized by Glimmer Train, Moondance, and Indie Affair. Guest appearances by Jim Morrison and other ‘Sixties icons. Rated R for sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Julia Stewart –
The stories in this collection really grab the reader by the hand and drag her or him into the world of the Sixties and Seventies, when young people met at antiwar demonstrations or sat around the living room listening to Neil Young or the Beatles or Jimi Hendrix, smoked weed, and philosophized about how they’d save the world. The writing is spare and compelling, the characters believable and real.