Discount: A Novel - Brossura

Casey Gray

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0715650394 ISBN 13: 9780715650394

Casa editrice: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2015

Riassunto

On the eve of the company president's visit to the store, a manager's drunk text to a coworker leads to a series of consequences as brutal as they are wide-ranging: Everyone around him will be affected. With a cast of characters featuring Ernesto, a local gang member struggling to choose a job pushing carts over a desultory life as a drug dealer; Wilma, a grandmother working double shifts to support her family; and Keith, a high school student with a penchant for filmmaking, Gray offers a startlingly humane, utterly contemporary portrait of life on the suburban fringe. A vision of an America barely getting by and assaulted by crime, corruption, and exploitation in all of its manifestations, Discount is nevertheless a triumphant and big-hearted novel that marks the arrival of a new voice we won't soon forget.

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L'autore:

Casey Gray teaches English at New Mexico State University. His work has appeared in Ploughshares.

Product Description:

Set in the American Southw est, forty miles north of Juarez, Casey Gray's ambitious, tragicomic, and ultimately redemptive novel follow s a group of customers and employees through the twenty-four hour work cycle as they seek comfort and sustenance inside of the cinderblock walls of a classic American institution - The Superstore.On the eve of the company president's visit to the store, a manager's drunk text to a co worker leads to a series of consequences as brutal as they are wide-ranging.With a cast of characters featuring Ernesto, a local gang member struggling to choose a job pushing carts over a desultory life as a drug dealer; Wilma, a grandmother working double shifts to support her family; and Keith, a high school student with a penchant for filmmaking, Gray offers a startlingly humane, utterly contemporary portrait of life on the suburban fringe. A vision of an America barely getting by and assaulted by crime, corruption, and exploitation in all of its manifestations, Discount is nevertheless a triumphant and bighearted novel that marks the arrival of a new voice we won't soon forget.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0715650394
• ISBN 13: 9780715650394
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320