Eight Mile High [electronic resource] / Jim Ray Daniels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniels, Jim, 1956-

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In these linked stories, the constants are the places-from Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar; from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan's, a store that sells misfit clothes. Daniels's characters wander Detroit, a world of concrete, where even a small strip of greenery becomes a hideout for mystery and mayhem. Even when they leave town-to Scout camp, or Washington, DC, or the mythical Up North, they take with them their hardscrabble working-class sensibilities and their determination to do what they must do to get by. With a survival inst

Contents:

Soul sacrifice

Survivor's guilt

Et tu

13 ways of looking at my father in his bathing suit (times 2)

Pearl diving

Our lad of no mercy

Bend in the road

AWOL

Target practice

13-part story with mime

My republican love affair

Dream house

Raccoon heaven

The tall tale of the cowboy mattress.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Daniels, Jim, 1956- Soul sacrifice.

ISBN:

1-62895-027-7

1-60917-428-3

OCLC:

882233201