Middle Men: Stories

A powerful, funny, and wise debut from a writer Esquire praises as “the second coming of Denis Johnson.”In this widely acclaimed story collection, Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, in which a number of down-on-their-luck men, from young dreamers to old vets, make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. Each of the men in Gavin’s stories is stuck somewhere in the middle, caught halfway between his dreams a...

By Jim Gavin
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (February 11, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781451649345
ISBN-13: 978-1451649345
ASIN: 1451649347
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 208616
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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I loved this collection of short stories, each featuring men (except for a teenage boy in one) in various stages of disaster. I'm a bit hungry for tales of California, and this book fills that need nicely. Most of them are set in the Southern Califor

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