What Salmon Know: Stories - Hardcover

Reid, Elwood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385491212 ISBN 13: 9780385491211

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1999

Synopsis

Focusing on the violence that sometimes accompanies the failure of male dreams, a collection of short stories chronicles two drunken Alaskan poachers, a softball team made up of alcoholics, and a college dropout who barely survives painting houses. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Imagine Sherwood Anderson on the dark side of town, with Nicolas Cage riding shotgun." --USA Today

"Best read in one sitting as a tour de force." --Boston Book Review

"The honesty of Reid's prose produces an emotional resonance that fills the heart, the kind of stuff literature is made of." --The Denver Post

"Strong, unsettling tales, narrated in a spare, pungent prose"--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Elwood Reid is the author of the novel If I Don't Six. Reid is a regular contributor of both fiction and nonfiction for GQ magazine, and has been a carpenter, a bouncer, a cook, a bartender, and a writing instructor. Reid is at work on a novel set in the Alaskan wilderness. He lives in Obernberg, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385491212
• ISBN 13: 9780385491211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226