Linda Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Writer and artist Quent Cordair is receiving great reviews on his recently released short stories. Three are currently available on Amazon for only 99 cents and those will be followed shortly by a collection of short stories and eventually his much anticipated novel. One of his latest, "Sheltered," is #31 in the short-stories category on Kindle; #45 in short-stories on all of Amazon. The stories can be downloaded to Kindles or to almost any device using Amazon's free reading app making them perfect for a lunch break escape, waiting room reading, commute entertainment, etc. Quent is also blogging about his fiction and has a Quent Cordair Fiction page on Facebook. Edited March 28, 2012 by Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overt Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Thank you for this information. I love his paintings, and from what I've seen in the excerpts I'll be loving his fiction soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JASKN Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 He is a talented writer. I've read two of the stories and enjoyed them both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted September 28, 2012 Report Share Posted September 28, 2012 I just bought his collection titled, Lunch Break. Looks like those three short stories are included in this collection, and another story was published after this collection. I bought the Kindle edition. I'll post about it once I read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 (edited) Here is my review: On the cover of this collection, is Quent Cordair’s lovely oil on canvas titled “Lunch Break”. You can see it here on his art gallery site, Quent Cordair Fine Art, which features the Romantic Realism in art, such as paintings, drawings, sculpture: http://www.cordair.com/ http://www.cordair.c...rdair/lunch.php It’s 130 pages in length, alternating with poems between short fiction pieces. In regards to the poems, I really enjoyed the first poem titled, “My Pledge”. It instantly rose to be among my top favorite poems. He says, he had written it when he stood at the dawn of his artistic career and held to it’s purpose. The other poems in the collection are: “Holding Your Hand”, “The Line”, “Your Hands”, “Priceless”, “In My World”, “Suite Boxes”, “For My Softest One”, “Clever Girl”. Among those, I really liked “In My World”, and liked “Priceless”. Now, these are all the short stories in the collection: “A Prelude to Pleasure”, “April’s Justice”, “The Whistler”, “The Seduction of Santi Banesh”, “For The Woman Who Has Everything”, “The Sculpture That Won The War”, “The Hunter”, and “Sheltered.” “Sheltered“, to me, reads much like a The Twilight Zone episode or of the like. It was nicely crafted and engaging to read. It has to do with a guy and his family where he knows that something bad will happen in the world, just not when, so he builds a bomb shelter (emergency shelter). My favorites among the short fiction would be: “A Prelude to Pleasure” Garrett, a billionaire‘s, quest for romantic love, someone to share his world. After 15 years of waiting he spent 5 years searching for it by hiring people to look for a specific kind of woman in the world which was premised on “ if he couldn‘t have what he wanted - he swore he would get the best that could be had“. I thought the story was excellent, a must read again. “The Seduction of Santi Banesh” It opens on a girl named Santi Banesh who was participating in the Fast for Virgins, which “was to teach control of physical desire and conquest of the hungry body. It was that highest duty and honor of every girl in the spring of her fifteenth year, at a critical age when a girl knew what it was to want, but hopefully before she had done anything about it.” All I can say without ruining the story for any potential readers of it, is that I really loved the way Cordair ended the story. Nicely crafted. “The Hunter” is among my list, too, and especially “The Sculpture That One The War”. This one was fantastic. It involves art, a sculptor’s masterpiece, a girl (4th grader) who falls in love with it, the kindness and generosity* of an art gallery manager, and the pilot who the little girl sent a postcard to. Easily the most touching short story I have ever read. Quent Cordair knows his way around a canvas with a brush, as evidenced by the cover of this collection, and he certainly knows his was around the page, too, as evidenced by the content of this collection. *I was listening to Tara Smiths lecture I had just bought from the new Ayn Rand estore (https://estore.aynra...ty-mp3-download ) when I was reading this collection, and I think that what the gallery manager did was an example of the kind of kindness, generosity that Tara Smith was speaking of. In my own testimonial, Linda, Quent Cordair’s wife, is that way in real life, as I have met her, and she gave me out of the kindness of her mind, a free QCFA catalogue, then later when I bought a first edition print she took off the extra added cost ($100.00) of a first edition print for having flown to Hollywood from Pittsburgh just to see their production of the play Monna Vanna. I’d like to think that Cordair had to have Linda in mind when writing about that gallery manager’s actions in the story. Edited October 13, 2012 by intellectualammo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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