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At the Cut |
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"At the Cut is an extraordinary work of auto-dissection, as well as a dissection of a closely packed if not knit, small, ethni-city, uninhibited, evenhanded--an inspection of our fabric on a scale as never before. The characters are a delight and sketched with sureness and economy. The situations make Catcher seem more wry or even awry than rye."
Joe Garland
"Peter Anastas' descriptive powers are as extraordinary as his memory of Gloucester in the 1940s and 50s ... And Anastas is almost brutal in revealing his inner soul, as he writes about the ghost that haunts those of us who never fit in as well as we wished when we were kids but later gained some modicum of success."
Alan Lupo
The Boston Globe
Broken Trip |
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"Told in a deceptively simple manner about generations of parents and children struggling to forge relationships amidst ravaged lives, Anastas takes an unblinking look at drug and sexual abuse, AIDS and teenage pregnancy. This personal devastation is paralleled by larger collapses - the fishing industry sputtering under tighter and tighter government regulations and the social service net shrinking under corporate consolidation and government cutbacks. The title, Broken Trip, comes from local slang for an unprofitable fishing voyage, but in his stories it becomes a metaphor for the devastating effects of poverty in Gloucester."
Greg Cook
Gloucester Daily Times
"Anastas is unflinching in his portrayals of incest, violence, sex, drug use and domestic chaos. Some of his writing about these matters is utterly poetic. And Anastas' way with dialogue is impressive. Not once does he aim for anything other than simplicity of language and brevity in description; yet, by the end of Broken Trip, we are completely absorbed—or is it ensnared? He has us by the heart."
Rae Francoeur
Salem News
"Compassion is the underlying aesthetic of Broken Trip."
Robert Buckeye
House Organ
About Peter Anastas
Peter Anastas was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1937 and attended local schools. He holds degrees in English from Bowdoin College and Tufts University. His previous publications include Glooskap's Children: Encounters with the Penobscot Indians of Maine (Beacon Press), Landscape with Boy, a novella in the Boston University Fiction Series, At the Cut, a memoir of growing up in Gloucester in the 1940s (Dogtown Books), and Broken Trip, a novel (Glad Day Books), along with fiction and non-fiction in Niobe, The Falmouth Review, Stations, America One, The Larcom Review, Polis, Split Shift, Cafe Review and Sulfur. Anastas is also the editor of Maximus to Gloucester: The Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1962-1969 (Ten Pound Island Books).
