Drowned boy : stories
(2010)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Sarabande Books, 2010
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781936747429 (electronic bk.) MWT12254778, 1936747421 (electronic bk.) 12254778
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Jerry Gabriel delivers an unsentimental portrait of rural America in Drowned Boy, a collection of linked stories that reveals a world of brutality, beauty, and danger in the forgotten landscape of small-town basketball tournaments and family reunions. In "Boys Industrial School," two brothers track an escaped juvenile convict, while in the titular novella; a young man and woman embark on a haphazard journey to find meaning in the death of a high-school classmate. These stories probe the fraught cusp of adulthood, the frustrations of escape and difference, and the emotional territory of disappointment-set in the hardscrabble borderlands where Appalachia meets the Midwest
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