Quick / stories by T.M. McNally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, T. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

202 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]

Summary:

From the author of Until Your Heart Stops and Almost Home, Quick is T. M. McNally's new collection of powerful and starkly honest stories of American life. Set in the modern Southwest, the stories in Quick are complex, sometimes fierce, always unafraid of the dark truths many of the lives here are forced to confront. Dense and layered, these miniature and compact sagas endow their often damaged characters with uncommon brilliance. Themes of love, loss, addiction, and courage roam freely throughout, and the author sets an unforgettable and palpable tone that is exceedingly spare yet faceted with views of the richness beneath the surface of everyday life.

Contents:

I. Muscle (and the possibility of grace)

Recovery

To comfort

Light rock. II. Wonderland

Insomnia

The last year of the soapbox

Radical. III. Horses

All we shall

The dark part

Quick.

ISBN:

0472114522

OCLC:

55000919