American Masculine
A Short Stories, Fiction book. A gorgeous and thought provoking collection about gender roles in...
Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a muscular debut that reconfigures the American WestThe American West has long been a place where myth and legend have flourished. Where men stood tall and lived rough. But that West is no more. In its place Shann Ray finds washedup basketball players, businessmen hiding addictions, and women fighting the inexplicable violence that wells up in these men. A son struggles to accept his father’s apologies after surviving a childhood of beatings. Two men seek empty basketball hoops on a snowy night, hoping to relive past glory. A bull rider skips town and rides herd on an unruly mob of passengers as he searches for a thief on a train threading through Montana’s Rocky Mountains. In these stories, Ray grapples with...
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- Pages: 185 pages
- ISBN: 9781555975883 / 1555975887
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In the note at the beginning of American Masculine, Robert Boswell, judge of the 2010 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize in fiction (which this collection won), writes that "one might call several of the stories in American Masculine experimental, much as one might accurately call the stories of Alice Munro experimental.... A gorgeous and thought provoking collection about gender roles in modern society, encompassing marriage, love, adultery, family, responsibility and heartbreak. And somehow, beautifully, in this somewhat harsh world, there is an echo of forgiveness.Shann Ray's story, "Mrs. Seacrest," is one of the most perfect short stories I have ever... There is much to admire in AMERICAN MASCULINE. Much. It is a deep and inventive story collection, so those of us who like to obsess about the short form find plenty to celebrate. But this is not merely a book for short story lovers. It's too soulful for that. It's too knowledgeable about fathers and sons, husbands and wives, brothers...
