Angel, Jodi <br/><br/>
You only get letters from jail  : stories 
/ by Jodi Angel. 
 - First U.S. edition. 
 - 286 pages  ; 20 cm 
<br/><br/> "These stories appeared, sometimes in slightly different form, in various publications"--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781935639572 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012045369 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Men----Fiction<br/>Masculinity
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3601.N553  / A6 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC ANG