3%OFF
If You Need Me I'll be Over There
Dave Madden
€ 17.99
€ 17.46
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for If You Need Me I'll be Over There
paperback. Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
After the Plains queered him, Dave Madden decided to return the favor. This outstanding collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind of difference—one not set in the glittering lights of New York or Los Angeles, but in the grand and wide American Midwest. For Madden's characters, their queerness is part of the environment, like the soil, the sky, and the supermarket: an HIV-positive chemist uses football to connect with his brothers; a 17-year-old girl tussles with a cartoon cobra to avoid thinking about the mother who abandoned her; and a hotel concierge starts attending Mass even ... Read more
Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Series
Break Away Books
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253020628
SKU
V9780253020628
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Dave Madden
Dave Madden is author of The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper's, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, The Normal School, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Sherwood Anderson Award in fiction, an AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction, a Bernard De Voto Fellowship at the ... Read more
Reviews for If You Need Me I'll be Over There
With his slim but powerful short story collection, If You Need Me I'll Be Over There, Madden expands upon this theme, the geography of coming out, along with numerous other territories of family life and marriage, both gay and straight. . . . His characters come across as singularly alive, their attitudes neither stereotyped nor predictable—yet still recognizeable.
The ... Read more
The ... Read more