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is my favorite of all time, and I love the haunting fear and despair of this song, This book of short stories based on the song dont quite come together for me, None are particularly intriguing or memorable This is a compilation of stories based on Springsteen's song "Meeting Across the River", I liked that the audiobook had multiple narrators, I was surprised at how many stories there were and did get bored with them after awhile, There was one story out of all of them that really stood out for me, It's on discin the beginning of the book, I will not spoil it but it was especially creative : Bruce Springsteen's melancholy "Meeting Across the River," a song rarely performed but beloved by his countless fans, serves as the inspiration for this eclectic mix of short stories written by an array of acclaimed authors.


"Meeting Across the River," from Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run album, is a song with an evocative melody and lyrics that unfold like a noir fable: a man down on his luck but desperate to make things right with his girl tells his buddy, Eddie, that they have to get across the river for a lastchance meeting with someone, all in the hopes of a big score: two grand.
With that money, our hero can win back his girl and all will be right with the worldbut if he and Eddie screw up, the consequences will be grave.
Authors including Eric Garcia, C, J. Box, Barbara Seranella, David Corbett, Gregg Hurwitz, and Steve Hamilton, among others, have written imaginative, heartbreaking, funny, and bold stories based on this classic American story of hope and despair, each a surprisingly different experiment with character and plot.
For as familiar as this story is, Springsteen's spare lyrics leave much unsaid, How these authors fill in the absences is what makes this collection, published a month before the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Springsteen's Born to Run, such an unusual treasure, proving that, just as with music, in literature no two performances are alike.
This has always been one of my favorite Springsteen songs, As with most anthologies, the stories were a little uneven, There are some great ones,

What a song! I just am not into short stories, I guess, As much as I love Springsteen this short story collection was very disappointing, Lots of halfbaked plots, and stale, unconvincing firstperson narratives, I wasn't able to finish it, Every character introduction Eddie, Cherry and every plot device borrowed from the song, the car disrupted these stories like the words were highlighted florescent, The "Meeting Across the River" lyrics, like many of Bruce's songs, are caught in a moment of suspenseful transition where everything could go right or wrong but the only way is forward.
To see so many of these stories end in failure for the main character is desensitizing after reading more than, to the point that the protagonists of different authors become indistinguishable.
The most successful stories have uncertain endings, not tragic ones, like the song, More of the authors should have shown this sensitivity to Springsteen's themes instead writing fanfiction,.

Stories inspired by one of my absolute favorite Springsteen songs, “Meeting Across the River” is an anthology that doesnt quite come together, The sum of its parts dont make a cohesive string of stories that create much feeling, I get that one of the missions of this anthology was to make a varied collection, but I dont think it works,

Some of the stories are too similar, There are two which practically have the same twist, Some are downright outrageous and dont pull off their experimentation, Some bleed together with the constant names of Eddie or Cherry, the two thousand dollars, the sold radio, These are aspects of the song, yes, but I dont think an anthology which has stories almost exclusively containing these breadcrumbs would become anything but stale.


However, when a story here hits hard, it hits good, The best stories in this collection either nail setting as a character, or capture the feeling of Bruce Springsteens “Meeting Across the River, ” Haunting, eerie, melancholic, desperate. Which, ideally, was the point for every story,

A decent collection when it wants to be, Highlights are:

“Meeting Across the River” Eric Garcia
“The Far Side of the River” William Kent Krueger
“Cherry Looks Back” Pam Houston
“Keeping It Good” Richard J.
Brewer
“Last Call” Eddie Muller
“Lovers in the Cold” Wallace Stroby
“Trumpet Blues” Anthony Rudel Surprisingly good collection of short stories all with loose tieins to theBruce Springsteen song Meeting Across the River.
Plots are varied settings but usually include Eddie, Cherry and rivers to cross sometimes the pawned radio is mentioned , and usually the plots result in things not going quite as planned, just as one imagines the song would end if it continued.
Excellent multiple narrators throughout/I found this book to be pretty hit or miss, It depended on the short stories: some I loved, some I hated! For instance, my favorite was "Killing Time by the River Styx" by Peter David.
It was so different! I have to say seeing all the ways people interpreted this underrated Bruce Springsteen song was amazing! If you are not so hung up on literal translations of the Springsteen song, this book is a quick fun read.
Many are imaginative riffs on the solitary subject, The story I really enjoyed was "Meeting Across The River Styx", A pretty unique take on the song, and an excellent read, The whole book was a kick, so far, not so good, the first story was absolutely LAME! the second story was okay and the third story pretty meaningless, hopefully it gets better, i had alot of hope for this book when i first discovered it,

this really shouldnt be on the "so bad i didnt finish" shelf, but it is, mostly becuase it was bad and i didnt finish it, i may finish it in the future, or i may just completely forget about it, most likely the latter.

there were some okay stories in this book, but mostly they were very lackluster and completely not the style of thing i like to read.
Jessica Kaye is an entertainment and publishing attorney at Kaye Mills sitelink www, kayemills. com and a multi Grammy Award winning audiobook director, She serves on the boards of the Audio Publishers Association, the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America MWA, and Screamfest Film Festival, Jessica owns Big Happy Family, LLC, an audiobook distributor sitelink www, bighappyfamilyaudio. com. She created and co edited the anthology Meeting Across the River BloomsburyUSA,and contributed a story to Occupied Earth Polis Books,and Culprits Polis Books,.
Jessica Kaye is an entertainment and publishing attorney at Kaye Mills sitelink www, kayemills. com and a multi Grammy Award winning audiobook director, She serves on the boards of the Audio Publishers Association, the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America MWA, and Screamfest Film Festival, Jessica owns Big Happy Family, LLC, an audiobook distributor sitelink www, bighappyfamilyaudio. com. She created and co edited the anthology Meeting Across the River BloomsburyUSA,and contributed a story to Occupied Earth Polis Books,and Culprits Polis Books,.
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