National Treasures - Softcover

Mcleod, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193740241X ISBN 13: 9781937402419

Publisher: Outpost 19, 2012

Synopsis

Charles McLeod's NATIONAL TREASURES is a mesmerizing study of America's margins. From back-country radicals to California rent boys to a man who puts his life up on eBay, this debut collection is a coast-to-coast assemblage of the American non-mainstream. A virtuoso storyteller, McLeod employs a dazzling range of styles in these unflinching portraits of contemporary life.

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Review:

"In McLeod's world. . . we accompany the lost and the jilted, the misfits and the victims, and revel in pitch-black humor and fiendishly inventive prose. Hard knocks have never been so entertaining." - Malcolm Forbes, The Rumpus

"In McLeod's world. . . we accompany the lost and the jilted, the misfits and the victims, and revel in pitch-black humor and fiendishly inventive prose. Hard knocks have never been so entertaining." - Malcolm Forbes, "The Rumpus"

"a rather 'honest' attempt to take the pulse of a population and a diverse natural environment that has endured the effects of suburban sprawl, nuclear weapons testing, altered atmospheric shifting, climate change, the drug war, inequality of all shapes and sizes, and the secularization of marriage. . . one of those rare achievements when literature bears witness to that which would otherwise remain unacknowledged" - "Fanzine"

"steeped in the tar and nicotine of Raymond Carver, and bathed in the crackerjack wisdom of Flannery O'Connor. . . Let's just say I spent the entire book hypnotized by McLeod's wordcraft" - David Abrams, author of "Fobbit" and "The Quivering Pen"

"McLeod captures the mood of a society which has long since been abandoned by the American Dream, if it dreams at all. It is genuinely hard to appreciate that this is Charles McLeod's first collection of short stories. He writes like a well worn pro." - "Bookmunch"

Book Description:

A powerful and poignant portrait of the America we don’t usually see – sharp, poetic and brilliantly written.

About this edition

• Publisher: Outpost 19
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 193740241X
• ISBN 13: 9781937402419
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 233