"By turns touching, humorous and sad, the stories, one especially, offer glimmers of hope for Nick's redemption."
—Anthony Bukowski, Star Tribune

"In these stories, Nick encounters his irresolution, his frequent infidelities, his failure to either love or leave Annie, his shortcomings as a novelist, and his inability to save his mother. One by one, these stories chronicle the trials of a young man exploring the dark places of his soul, grappling with what he finds there, and, step-by-painful-step, learning what it is to journey into adulthood."
—Michael Beeman, ForeWord

“Mullins crafts one great image after another in Greetings from Below, and his lingering depiction of scene and setting is consistently moving. . . . These are lush stories, and the descriptions in them are so satisfying that they give Las Vegas a depth and solidity that the city, by its very nature, tries to elude.”
—Theodore Wheeler, Prairie Schooner

"By turns touching, humorous and sad, the stories, one especially, offer glimmers of hope for Nick's redemption."
—Anthony Bukowski, Star Tribune

"In these stories, Nick encounters his irresolution, his frequent infidelities, his failure to either love or leave Annie, his shortcomings as a novelist, and his inability to save his mother. One by one, these stories chronicle the trials of a young man exploring the dark places of his soul, grappling with what he finds there, and, step-by-painful-step, learning what it is to journey into adulthood."
—Michael Beeman, ForeWord

“Mullins crafts one great image after another in Greetings from Below, and his lingering depiction of scene and setting is consistently moving. . . . These are lush stories, and the descriptions in them are so satisfying that they give Las Vegas a depth and solidity that the city, by its very nature, tries to elude.”
—Theodore Wheeler, Prairie Schooner

Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction, selected by David Means, and the University of Nevada's Silver Pen Award. What would have become of Nick Adams if he'd been born along the ragged edges of a new American city, one with more churches per capita than any other, and twice the suicide rate? Meet Nick Danze, the main character of David Philip Mullins's vital debut collection, Greetings from Below. The opening story finds fourteen-year-old Nick and his pal Kilburg sitting in the Las Vegas desert, drinking whiskey from Kilburg's fake leg. It's the first of many shocks in Nick's sexual education, which begins with a kiss from Kilburg he calls "practice." In later stories, Nick hires a call girl, visits a swingers' club on Christmas Eve, obsesses over obese middle-aged women, and meets the love of his life, Annie, only he's not sure he loves her and he's compulsively unfaithful. Ashamed of his behavior, he stubbornly repeats it. And lurking behind it all is Vegas, with its gilded casinos, neon-tinted suburbs, and dingy, outer-ring strip clubs. In Nick's wounded honesty and queasy self-consciousness, Mullins awakens us to the perverse power of alienation and shame. "Mullins writes about these journeys, and about sex and the desert, with a wonderful, edgy lucidity. Greetings from Below is a remarkable debut."––Margot Livesey David Philip Mullins grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Fiction, Ecotone, and Folio. He has received awards from Yaddo and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife and two children, where he teaches writing and literature at Creighton University.
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Set in Vegas, these Mary McCarthy Prize-winning stories chronicle what becomes of a man contorted by grief and sexual regret.
Arboretum The Last Thing in the World Greetings from Below Driving Lessons True Love Versus the Cigar Store Indian Glitter Gulch This Life or the Next First Sight Crash Site on a Desert Mountain Outside Las Vegas
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$3000 marketing and publicity budget Promotion in Sarabande's contest advertising Publicity and promotion through the author's strong creative writing/journalism contacts Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande database as well as contacts Mullins provides 500 postcards mailed to Mullins' contacts Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserve as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs
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ISBN
9781932511888
Publisert
2011-03-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Vekt
255 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

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David Philip Mullins grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Fiction, Ecotone, and Folio. He has received awards from Yaddo and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife and two children, where he teaches writing and literature at Creighton University.