Greetings from Below (平装)
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品牌: David Philip Mullins
基本信息出版社:SARABANDE BOOKS (2011年1月1日)平装:224页正文语种:英语ISBN:1932511881条形码:9781932511888ASIN:1932511881
商品描述内容简介Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction, selected by David Means.
"Mullins writes about these journeys, and about sex and the desert, with a wonderful, edgy lucidity.Greetings from Belowis a remarkable debut."––Margot Livesey
What would have become of Nick Adams if he'd been born along the ragged edges of a new American city, one with more churches per capita than any other, and twice the suicide rate? Meet Nick Danze, the main character of David Philip Mullins's vital debut collection,Greetings from Below. The opening story finds fourteen-year-old Nick and his pal Kilburg sitting in the Las Vegas desert, drinking whiskey from Kilburg's fake leg. It's the first of many shocks in Nick's sexual education, which begins with a kiss from Kilburg he calls "practice." In later stories, Nick hires a call girl, visits a swingers' club on Christmas Eve, obsesses over obese middle-aged women, and meets the love of his life, Annie, only he's not sure he loves her and he's compulsively unfaithful. Ashamed of his behavior, he stubbornly repeats it. And lurking behind it all is Vegas, with its gilded casinos, neon-tinted suburbs, and dingy, outer-ring strip clubs. In Nick's wounded honesty and queasy self-consciousness, Mullins awakens us to the perverse power of alienation and shame.
