Bull head / John Vigna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vigna, John, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural conditions--Fiction.

Rural conditions.

Northwest, Pacific--Fiction.

Northwest, Pacific.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2012]

Summary:

"A line-dancing aficionado visits his brother in jail in hopes of mending their relationship, and instead discovers his own unwitting role in his brother's failed life. After the death of his wife and children, a logger tries to survive the Thanksgiving weekend on his own. A delinquent teen's life is changed forever by a work-camp placement with a violent older boy. A truck driver seeks sanctuary from his abusive wife in a fantasy world of strip clubs and personal ads. Bristling with restlessness and brutality, these linked stories set in the Pacific Northwest catapult readers into the gritty lives of social outcasts lost in purgatories of their own making. John Vigna tempers raw and at times cruel rural masculinity with graceful prose and breathtaking tenderness to illuminate the plight of men living in small towns and backwoods who belong neither to history nor the future. A startling homage to the great Southern Gothic tradition, Bull Head is a dazzling debut that heralds a powerful and exciting new literary voice."--Publisher.

Contents:

Two-step

Short haul

Fences

Cutblock

Gas bar

South country

Bull head

Pit bulls.

Other Format:

Vigna, John, 1965- Bull head.

ISBN:

9781551524900

1551524902

OCLC:

805880095

Publisher Number:

99956169397

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