You only get letters from jail : stories
Angel, Jodi
You only get letters from jail : stories / by Jodi Angel. - First U.S. edition. - 286 pages ; 20 cm
"These stories appeared, sometimes in slightly different form, in various publications"--Title page verso.
A good duce -- Cash or trade -- Catch the grey dog -- Field dressing -- Game-bred gap -- The diving reflex -- The last mile -- Firm and good -- Snuff -- You only get letters from jail.
Angel's second book of short stories features young men with bleak futures, too immersed in surviving hardships from day to day to ever move beyond them. Whether it's a character picking up a woman 26 hours after his mother's death, or someone hanging out with a friend growing an Afghani pot hybrid called "Scarlet Pussy," or a boyfriend running away with his pregnant girlfriend, the hapless lives Angel depicts are filled with cars, beer, casual sex, and little else. Senseless violence toward animals forms a recurring motif in the stories. The writing is intense and visceral, but the characters are unlikeable; they are passive when it comes to anything other than momentary gratification and refuse to break out of familial histories of self-defeat.
9781935639572
2012045369
Men----Fiction
Masculinity
PS3601.N553 / A6 2013
FIC ANG
You only get letters from jail : stories / by Jodi Angel. - First U.S. edition. - 286 pages ; 20 cm
"These stories appeared, sometimes in slightly different form, in various publications"--Title page verso.
A good duce -- Cash or trade -- Catch the grey dog -- Field dressing -- Game-bred gap -- The diving reflex -- The last mile -- Firm and good -- Snuff -- You only get letters from jail.
Angel's second book of short stories features young men with bleak futures, too immersed in surviving hardships from day to day to ever move beyond them. Whether it's a character picking up a woman 26 hours after his mother's death, or someone hanging out with a friend growing an Afghani pot hybrid called "Scarlet Pussy," or a boyfriend running away with his pregnant girlfriend, the hapless lives Angel depicts are filled with cars, beer, casual sex, and little else. Senseless violence toward animals forms a recurring motif in the stories. The writing is intense and visceral, but the characters are unlikeable; they are passive when it comes to anything other than momentary gratification and refuse to break out of familial histories of self-defeat.
9781935639572
2012045369
Men----Fiction
Masculinity
PS3601.N553 / A6 2013
FIC ANG
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