Settlers of unassigned lands / Charles McLeod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLeod, Charles, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Twenty-first century prose series

21st century prose

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In "How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town," an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream does an interview with a German reporter in "The Subject of Our First issue Is Art." In the title story, a closeted heroin dealer follows a ghostly girl into an Oakland graveyard. And in "Rancho Brava," the conductor of a focus group about corporate salsa keeps getting interrupted by visitors from the Old West. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the - often all three at once-McLeod's second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland's lost, forgotten towns, into the lives of people trying to decipher if they can escape their pasts, and at what cost. Book jacket.

Contents:

How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town 1

Exit Wounds 13

Settlers of Unassigned Lands 19

The Ledge 25

The Subject of Our First Issue Is Arc 39

Lost Cultures of the Ancient World 63

Rancho Brava 81.

Notes:

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472121038

9780472036202

Publisher Number:

10.3998/tfcp.13240728.0001.001

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.