Middle Men: Stories
Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2013
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- Middle Men: Stories
- Author
- Jim Gavin
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1451649312
- ISBN 13
- 9781451649314
- Item weight
- 0.94 pounds
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Review
"Jim Gavin's Middle Men is perfectly titled -- these are characters gloriously unaware of how adrift they are. Gnostic high school basketballers, romantic pursuers, open mic comedians -- I've rarely seen such a keen depiction of souls so out of focus. These stories -- especially "Elephant Doors" -- brought back some hilarious, uncomfortable memories for me. Immerse yourself! Immerse!"--Patton Oswalt "author of Zombie Spaceship Wasteland "
"Like the heroes of this stunning collection, Jim Gavin's stories negotiate and illuminate the gray, authentic middle, bridging the divide that exists between California's--and indeed, America's--golden mythology and her starker realities. There is deep truth, beauty, and humor to be found in this territory, and in Gavin we have found the ultimate emissary. This book is an absolute triumph of sympathy and revelation."--Skip Horack "author of The Eden Hunter and The Southern Cross "
"I love the wit and intelligence and rigor with which Jim Gavin renders characters who find themselves spiraling down the water column. Middle Men is peerless in its portraits of American males dimly coming to appreciate the disastrous convergence of their own fecklessness and feelings of entitlement with the increasingly unforgiving hard times bearing down on them, and on most of the rest of us as well."--Jim Shepard "author of You Think That's Bad and Liked You'd Understand, Anyway "
"Jim Gavin's stories are wise and funny and not at all afraid of the dark, or the light. Middle Men is a very powerful debut."--Sam Lipsyte "author of The Ask "
"With its sharply drawn characters, its humor and affection and melancholy, its deep wisdom of the ways we live and cope and endure, and its panoramic and precise vision of California, Middle Men is a phenomenal story collection, and Jim Gavin an extravagantly talented writer. I could not put this book down. Gavin brings the California and SoCal I know and love to the page with searing intelligence, beauty, and an emotive force, making Middle Men one of the finest and most unusual fictions I've read in years."--Victoria Patterson "author of Drift and This Vacant Paradise "
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