Pitiful Criminals
When Greg Bottoms runs into an old friend from high school, neither man is sure if it's worth starting their first conversation in over a decade. As teens, they had run with a rough crowd-standard hooligans, in Bottoms' mind, until his friend became cruel in his violence, exhibiting pure, gleeful meanness.” Years later, as they cross paths at an ATM in their hometown, the friend can't believe Bottoms went to college, grad school, is a writing professor with a wife and kids. The friend has been in and out of prison for drugs and drunken brawls, has a son with a black eye waiting in his truck.Such is the juxtaposition between Bottoms and many o…
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Weitere Autoren: Powell, David (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-61902-386-4
- EAN: 9781619023864
- Produktnummer: 21841840
- Verlag: Catapult
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 204 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'351 KB
Über den Autor
Greg Bottoms is an essayist, story writer, and critic. He is the author of a memoir, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, two books of narrative essays about American self-taught religious artists, The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art and Spiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith, and three genre-blurring collections of autobiographical short prose, Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks, Fight Scenes, and Swallowing the Past. He is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where he teaches creative writing.
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