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IN SHORT MEASURES

Michael Ruhlman

Three Novellas

In his three gorgeous novellas, “In Small Measures,” “Strong Conspirators,” and “Sally Forth,” Michael Ruhlman delves deeply into the nuanced complexity of romantic and sexual love—and the inevitable evolution of the heart over the span of years and decades.

Each novella asks questions about the nature of love in terms of loyalty and fidelity—what are one’s obligations towards one’s spouse, one’s family, and one’s heart? In the first novella, “In Small Measures,” these questions are bound up in a writer’s work and a long-ago love. In the second, “Strong Conspirators,” an unforeseen, cataclysmic event calls for responses from a husband and wife that have never been rehearsed—because they have never been required nor even imagined. In “Sally Forth,” a pair of old friends is forced to explore lost youth and lost love, relative to maturity, marriage, and the passage of time. Profoundly thought-provoking and satisfying, these novellas are beautifully written with plot twists from beginning to end that will captivate the reader. Michael Ruhlman is the bestselling author of more than twenty books that have sold more than two million combined copies. These include The Making of a Chef, The Soul of a Chef, Ratio, Egg, and the James Beard Award winning Ruhlman’s Twenty. Having made a name for himself as a food and cookbook writer, as well as a television personality, Ruhlman has always wanted to write fiction. This is his debut. He resides in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Book Published 2015-10-06 by Skyhorse

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Fans of Michael Ruhlman’s nonfiction and new readers alike will marvel, as I did, at his fictional debut. Ruhlman writes with intelligence and grace about the things that matter: love and loss and redemption. This is a literary achievement of the first order.

n Short Measures is a propulsively well-written trio of novellas linked by a sense of loss and an inquiry into the impossible past. Ruhlman's voice is poetic and visceral, and his characters feel both familiar and strange in the way of the best fiction. This is a richly layered book, full of surprises and pleasures.

The three novellas in In Short Measures take on the joys and sorrows of romance, especially middle-aged nostalgia for the lost, seemingly perfect loves of the past. 'We can't hold feelings for this long, can we?' one character wonders. Yes, Michael Ruhlman answers, we can, and just look what it does to us.

In his fictional debut, Michael Ruhlman gives us three intriguing novellas about loss, regret, and the passage of time: how we lose each other and ourselves, and what we do when we reach the outer limits of the commitments we've made.