Rust and Bone: Stories, (Paperback)

from knownever

All the stories in this collection take place in that cinematic world of down-and-outs where people have to repossess prosthetic limbs for a living to pay their wife's medical bills. It's the kind of hardscrabble, booze-soaked, Oedipal world where Annie Proulx's barren, rigid characters wouldn't ...

from jimrgill

All of the protagonists in this short story collection-from the sympathetic repo man with a conscience ("On Sleepless Roads") to the deceptively genteel upper middle class suburbanite with a warped sense of fatherhood and canine love ("A Mean Utility")-either suffer from some debilitating charact...

from jimrgill

All of the protagonists in this short story collection-from the sympathetic repo man with a conscience ("On Sleepless Roads") to the deceptively genteel upper middle class suburbanite with a warped sense of fatherhood and canine love ("A Mean Utility")-either suffer from some debilitating charact...