I'm a man / stories by Peter Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Peter, 1951-

Language:

English

Genre:

Speeches.

Physical Description:

157 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, [2003]

Summary:

The colorful characters who populate these stories live in Buffalo, but they will be readily recognizable to everyone. These are the blue collar men who never leave the neighborhood and move to the large house in the suburbs. They work in the steel mills, and when those mills close, they do whatever they can to stay afloat on the sea of anger created by the circumstances of their lives. They drink, they fight, they hang out in pool halls waiting for "something to develop." They never achieve the American Dream -- in most cases, they don't even buy into it -- yet they are in the truest sense heroic. They are ordinary people stumbling through one small disaster after another.

Contents:

Flamenco

The angry man

Nude photographs, obscene phone calls

Shadowboxing

WHOOSH!

Rich girl

A tradition

Ex-ray

The chair

Two treesomes

I'm a man

The more things change.

Notes:

Several stories previously published in an earlier collection entitled: I'm a man. Chicago : Rain Crow Pub., [1998].

ISBN:

1893996697

OCLC:

53178070