No Good For Digging: Stories - Softcover

Hoffman, Dustin M

 
9781733466301: No Good For Digging: Stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1733466304 ISBN 13: 9781733466301
Publisher: Word West LLC, 2019

Synopsis

A strongman grapples with his shrinking body; a couple recalls the metamorphic stages of their love; a deck salesman makes a long-winded sales pitch; a magician guards a deadly secret. These are the lives that populate the stories of Dustin M. Hoffman—a vibrant, eccentric dream of America, one that deconstructs the blue-collar experience, and expands the possibilities of short fiction itself. Satirical and heartfelt, poignant and loopily funny, NO GOOD FOR DIGGING cements the arrival of a singular literary talent.

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Review

"Few writers working today care as deeply for their characters as Dustin M. Hoffman. These stories are deeply human, keen to the everyday wonders of romance, family, and work." — Matt Bell, author of A Tree or a Person or a Wall

“In No Good for Digging, Dustin M. Hoffman blends the blue-collar Midwest with the magical and surreal. Hoffman’s collection is at once humorous, poetic, poignant and wistful, and an ardent love letter to the Midwest.” — Anne Valente, author of The Desert Sky Before Us

"These stories are brutal, beautiful, and full of heart. Hoffman feels like a Sherwood Anderson for our time, a writer who not only understands our secret sadnesses and longings but who brings them to the surface with an unwavering sense of compassion." -Seth Fried, author of The Municipalists

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Publisher
Word West LLC
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1733466304
ISBN 13 
9781733466301
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
110