If You Need Me I'll Be Over There (Break Away Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025302062X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 188 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In seeking out the ordinary struggles of extraordinary people trying to figure out their place within families and communities, Madden masterfully explores what it means to be an outsider always looking in.. After the Plains queered him, Dave Madden decided to return the favor. For Madden’s characters, their queerness is part of the environment, like the soil, the sky, and the supermarket: an HIV-positive chemist uses football to connect with his brothers; a 17-year-old girl tussles with a cartoon cobra to avoid thinking about the mother who abandoned her; and a hotel concierge starts attending Mass even though his partner was molested by a priest. This outstanding collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind of differenceone not set in the glittering lights of New York or Los Angeles, but in the grand and wide American Midwest
Madden is a brave, canny, bold writer who walks unafraid into lives that are marginalized, damaged, ridden by grief and loss and sometimes held up by only a thread of reality. The title storyalone is worth the price of admission, delivering the book to a place of exquisite, wondrous tenderness. These charismatic stories, as funny as they are sad, are attuned to the possibility of disorder beneath every human aspiration." Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door"These unforgettable, beautifully crafted stories are narrated in a voice that is among the very best of this generation of young writers. Dave Madden renders these characters with the fond and exacting accuracy of a mathematician plying a notorious
His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, The Normal School, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Sherwood Anderson Award in fiction, an AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction, a Bernard De Voto Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a Te
"Five Stars" according to Jimmy Kickstand. Deep and humorous. A winning collection of short fiction.. Five Stars Jan Rockwell Love the stories. I'm longing for each story to continue.. Amazon Customer said A Worthy Story Collection. Although short stories are viewed as an easier art form than novels or poetry, they are ironically seen as less commercial. Personally, the short story is a higher art form due to its difficult execution. While you can have as many pages in the novel to tell your story h