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You only get letters from jail : stories / by Jodi Angel.

By:

Angel, Jodi

Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 286 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9781935639572

Uniform titles:

Short stories . Selections

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC ANG

LOC classification:

PS3601.N553 A6 2013

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC ANG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		049977

"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.

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