That's True of Everybody
Author | : Mark Winegardner |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 0156027364 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780156027366 |
Rating | : 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The proprietor of a bowling alley whose artist daughter paints only phalluses. A ninth-grade girl who marries in haste only to be faced with her husband's impotence. A libidinous poet who learns the meaning of harassment. The life and loves of a professional lawn-mower. These are just a few of the distinctive stories that make up Mark Winegardner's remarkable debut short-story collection. Winegardner, whose rich and epic novel Crooked River Burning gave the much-maligned city of Cleveland a fresh and vibrant aspect, now returns to the Midwest that he knows so intimately and casts a piercingly compassionate eye on its denizens. The result is a kaleidoscopic picture of a people who are arrogant and humble, faithful and disloyal, driven and floundering-a people who are finally, America itself.