Fiction. SYPTOMS OF TERMINAL PASSION is a wise and graceful collection of seven short stories of love from the Northern California-based Aaron. "I did not want these stories to end. I wish the collection were a long novel that I could settle down to read over the next few weeks.... If you ever wondered what mature love looks like, read these stories. In Chester Aaron's world, even when couples separate, love lives on, in fact, sometimes it thrives, and rarely have I read about the intimate lives of couples no longer together who yet come together in friendship and respect and even, yes, a new form of passion"—Dr. Jeffrey Masson.

Author City: OCCIDENTAL, CA USA

Born in 1923 in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, Chester Aaron served in World War II. After attending UCLA, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State, he joined the faculty of Saint Mary's College, retiring in 1997. Author of novels, stories, and memoirs—including the novel ABOUT THEM and the story collection SYMPTOMS OF TERMINAL PASSION, both from El León Literary Arts—he is known worldwide as an expert on garlic, growing more than fifty kinds on his farm in Sonoma County.

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