Stephen Florida : a novel / Gabe Habash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Habash, Gabe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wrestlers--Fiction.

Wrestlers.

Male college athletes--Fiction.

Male college athletes.

Loneliness--Fiction.

Loneliness.

Level of aspiration.

Level of aspiration--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Loneliness--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.

Summary:

"In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing character study."--Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life. Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark."-- Provided by publisher.

For North Dakota college wrestler Stephen Florida, making it to the championships is the obsession of his senior year. As he competes in wrestling tournaments across the Midwest, he begins to have suicidal thoughts, beginning a descent into madness.

ISBN:

9781566894647

1566894646

OCLC:

959036126

Publisher Number:

99972589110