Nick Rees Gardner

Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When you're trapped in a Rust Belt town, time passes or it doesn't. The people of Westinghouse, Ohio know this better than most. In Delinquents, their personal worlds expand and collapse in on themselves as they battle addictions, build scrap-metal rocket ships, and tether themselves to plans that will either get them out of dodge or blow up in their faces.

A former Deadhead seeks sobriety in his hometown, though his decades-old childhood trauma has been exhumed and now awaits him. A sometimes-recovering addict asks his younger sister to put him up as he repairs cars in their yard and she scrabbles to keep her own sanity. A woman intending to follow her boyfriend out of town wonders why a newcomer in Westinghouse has captured her latent interest.

Nick Rees Gardner's linked stories portray people as they are: alternately hilarious, desperate, resilient, broken. For the characters contained in Delinquents, the crux is determining which they'll be when the music stops.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Madrona Books
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781960593047
• Artikelnr.: 75075611

Autorenporträt

Nick Rees Gardner is a writer, critic, writing teacher, and beer and wine monger. His books include, So Marvelously Far, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2019), an accounting of addiction and recovery in the Rust Belt; and Hurricane Trinity (Unsolicited Press, 2023), a climate change novella. He has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the De Groot Foundation, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He lives in Ohio and Washington, DC.