LIGHT INTO DARK

About the Book

Light into Dark offers up a startling collection of stories ranging from the frivolous “Reductio ad absurdum” to the truly disturbing darkness of “A Modern Proposal.” Read “Cooking 101” without laughing; read “Nobody Stopped to Say Goodbye” without weeping; read “Gabriel” without recoiling from a horrifying vision of America. Children, men in authority, women in hopeless situations: no one is spared in the riveting satires that comprise this collection of stories from the pen of Robert Joseph Foley, often compared to Flannery O’Connor and Sherwood Anderson. From the Clarion Review of A Little of This, A Lot of That: “There is an unmistakable lushness, almost an embarrassment of richness in Foley’s writing….No lover of piercing, tumultuous literature should miss it.”

About the Author

In retirement from teaching English and Drama, Foley has gained a reputation for producing turbulent and highly praised fiction. Recently widowed after 62 years of marriage, he currently lives in East Meadow, New York, close to his beloved children and grandkids. The range of stories in “Light into Dark” reflects the tastes of an author who loves to entertain, who loves to surprise and stun his readers, who loves to provoke and inspire them; and, above all, who loves life.