That's True of Everybody: Stories - Hardcover

Winegardner, Mark

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9780151008643: That's True of Everybody: Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151008647 ISBN 13: 9780151008643

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

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The critically acclaimed author of Crooked River Burning journeys into the heart of America to offer a multifaceted portrait of such offbeat and colorful characters as a libidinous poet who learns the true meaning of harassment and the bowling alley proprietor whose artist daughter specializes in painting phalluses. A first collection. 25,000 first printing.

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PRAISE FOR THAT'S TRUE OF EVERYBODY
"Manages to find humor and moments of hope amid the chaos."
-The Washington Post Book World
"These stories have a ring of truth, as if Winegardner were not inventing their dramas but dredging them up from someplace deep inside him."-Chicago Tribune
"The stories might be grand in scope, but it is attention to nuances of settings, plot and character that ultimately makes the difference in Winegardner's fiction."-The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
PRAISE FOR THAT'S TRUE OF EVERYBODY
"Manages to find humor and moments of hope amid the chaos."
-The Washington Post Book World
"These stories have a ring of truth, as if Winegardner were not inventing their dramas but dredging them up from someplace deep inside him."-Chicago Tribune
"The stories might be grand in scope, but it is attention to nuances of settings, plot and character that ultimately makes the difference in Winegardner's fiction."-The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

From the Back Cover:

"The depth of understanding that this collection of stories displays is profoundly impressive. The characters, whether on the verge of coming apart or coming to life, are treated with humanity and humor under the skillful influence of an expansive talent." -Antonya Nelson, author of Female Trouble

The proprietor of a bowling alley whose artist daughter paints only phalluses. A ninth-grade girl who marries in haste only to be faced with her husband's impotence. A libidinous poet who learns the meaning of harassment. The life and loves of a professional lawn-mower. These are just a few of the distinctive stories that make up Mark Winegardner's remarkable debut short-story collection.
Winegardner, whose rich and epic novel Crooked River Burning gave the much-maligned city of Cleveland a fresh and vibrant aspect, now returns to the Midwest that he knows so intimately and casts a piercingly compassionate eye on its denizens. The result is a kaleidoscopic picture of a people who are arrogant and humble, faithful and disloyal, driven and floundering--a people who are finally, America itself.

"Winegardner manages to find humor and moments of hope amid the chaos." --The Washington Post Book World
"[These] stories might be grand in scope, but it is attention to nuances of settings, plot and character that ultimately makes the difference in Winegardner's fiction." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

Mark Winegardner is the author of the bestselling Crooked River Burning and the award-winning Veracruz Blues. He is currently at work on the next novel in the Godfather series, to be published by Random House. Mr. Winegardner is Janet Burroway Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida where he makes his home with his wife and three children.

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