Settright Road e-bog
80,10 DKK
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Settright Road is a collection of 20 short stories and one longer piece of fiction, all set in and around a string of busted Massachusetts mill towns during the cocaine-fueled 1980s.Its pages are colored by unforgettable characters: a teenage lothario whose plans to escape his one-horse town by hopping a train to California are monkey-wrenched when he impregnates a local girl from a prominent f...
E-bog
80,10 DKK
Forlag
Dzanc Books
Udgivet
16 januar 2017
Længde
184 sider
Genrer
Short stories
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781945814006
Settright Road is a collection of 20 short stories and one longer piece of fiction, all set in and around a string of busted Massachusetts mill towns during the cocaine-fueled 1980s.Its pages are colored by unforgettable characters: a teenage lothario whose plans to escape his one-horse town by hopping a train to California are monkey-wrenched when he impregnates a local girl from a prominent family; fresh-out-of-prison Sean Folan, who nearly kills a man in a bar fight just so hell get locked up again; underage Bill Buick, who sells dope to hard-up townies and seduces high school girls, when hes not driving a wedge between his aunt and her new boyfriend; and Eskimo trouble in a too-tight dress a dancer and a poet whose unsavory relationship with a strip club owner comes to a tragic end when she falls in love with a notorious backwoods brawler.Jon Boilard lets loose these conflicted characters against a backdrop of the abject poverty that sits in stark contrast to the lush New England scenery; then he challenges us to root for these desperados despite the weight of their human errors.