In a gorgeous literary novel set on the rain-slicked streets of Chicago, critically acclaimed author Daniel Buckman explores the unfocused longing and unfulfilled expectations of two men balanced precariously on the edge. Mike Spence is a dreamer who ends each evening staring out his darkened window into the apartment of an alluring Vietnamese woman. Donald Goetzler is a veteran who feels alive only when reliving his memories of the war with the call girl whose haunting beauty echoes the landscape of his life as a young soldier. As the two men construct their elaborate fantasy worlds around the same woman, these three souls are unaware of the explosive consequences that the intersection of their lives will bring. In a beautifully crafted novel as warm as it is dark, Daniel Buckman demonstrates the prodigious talent that informs repeated comparisons to Hemingway, Faulkner, Mailer, and O'Brien, and once again tantalizes with the possibility that his name will one day be etched in American literature alongside the masters.
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Praise for "MORNING DARK: ""Overstuffed with detail, but always the right ones: a messy kind of perfect."--"Kirkus Reviews""Buckman is a master of character development and interpersonal analysis, and his slice-of-life tale of family dysfunction is right on target. Many men will identify with this family as they struggle to save themselves from the war still raging within. Highly recommended."--Thomas L. Kilpatrick, "Library Journal" (starred review)"In the tradition of Tim O'Brien and Larry Brown... [an] intense effort."--"Publishers Weekly""The terrifying and wonderful achievement of Buckman's novel is its willingness to dramatize a hard but rarely acknowledged truth the hysterical fear and hatred of the racial other is as American as apple pie and the smart bomb."--Jeffery Renard Allen, "Chicago"" Tribune""William Faulkner would have found much to recognize and admire in Daniel Buckman's "MORNING DARK.""--Tom Nolan, "San Francisco Chronicle""" Praise for "THE NAMES OF RIVERS""Let the word go out: There's a new Hemingway loose in America. "THE NAMES OF RIVERS" is a stunning look into the dark violence at the root of men's souls. It will leave you sickened like a gut-punch, but it will also make you want to come back for more."--"San Francisco Chronicle""Buckman's intensely written second novel displays a remarkably exacting touch with his lead characters and supporting cast [and] surefooted storytelling skills." --"Publishers Weekly""Austerely beautiful prose. An elliptical, memorable read."--"Booklist""Another episode of the literature of Crane and Bierce, Hemingway and Faulkner, Jones and Mailer, Heinemann and O'Brien, a literature that has its own sort of redemptive power that comes from setting down what is never carved in marble or celebrated on national holidays."--"Chicago"" Tribune""
DANIEL BUCKMAN served as a paratrooper with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division. Because the Rain is his fourth novel.
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