Once you break a knuckle : stories / D. W. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, D. W. (Dave W.), 1985-

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Canadian.

Genre:

Short stories.

Short stories, Canadian.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

246 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Summary:

"In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy's death. A heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car. Sons challenge fathers and break taboos. Crackling with tension and propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D. W. Wilson's stories reveal to us how our best intentions can be doomed to fail or injure, how our loves can fall short or mislead us, how even friendship--especially friendship--can be something dangerously temporary. An intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline and vulnerability, doggedness and dignity, Once You Break a Knuckle explores the courage it takes just to make it through another day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Elasticity of Bone

The Persistence

Sediment

The Mathematics of Friedrich Gauss

Reception

Big Bitchin' Cow

Don't Touch the Ground

Valley Echo

Accelerant

The Dead Roads

The Millworker

Once You Break a Knuckle.

ISBN:

9781608199945

1608199940

OCLC:

858778178

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