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The Spoils : Stories / Casey Pycior.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Switchgrass BooksPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (158 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501757938
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3616.Y43
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Outing -- Disaster Carpenter -- Home Shopping -- Preservation -- Absolution -- If There Could've Been Another Way, I Wish That's How It'd Been -- Pinchbeck -- Luck -- Chasing a Leak -- The Current -- De Facto Romance -- Cashing In -- Pasteurization -- Through the Gears -- As Much as One Deserves -- The Spoils
Summary: Deep in the landlocked heart of the Midwest, the characters in The Spoils are drowning under the weight of masculinity, paralyzed in the grip of things left unsaid. These men are broken and breaking, struggling to reckon with the decisions they've made and those they have yet to face. Set mostly in and around Kansas, the stories in this powerful collection explore how men perform, in their jobs and personal lives, and investigate the gray area between doing what's best for oneself and acting a part to make others happy. A man questions whether he should leave his drug-addicted girlfriend and her son or stay, sacrificing his own well-being to be the boy's father. Fed up with the role of the stooge, a Washington Generals player takes his A-game to the Harlem Globetrotters and has to face the unforeseen consequences. A rookie prison guard sent to procure a death row inmate's final meal commits a small, subversive act of humanity. In a world where the line between right and wrong is constantly shifting, some struggle to do the right thing, while others eschew the line altogether and deal with the sometimes violent repercussions. The Spoils examines these difficult choices and will appeal to readers of literary fiction and short stories, especially readers of fiction based in the Midwest.  
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Outing -- Disaster Carpenter -- Home Shopping -- Preservation -- Absolution -- If There Could've Been Another Way, I Wish That's How It'd Been -- Pinchbeck -- Luck -- Chasing a Leak -- The Current -- De Facto Romance -- Cashing In -- Pasteurization -- Through the Gears -- As Much as One Deserves -- The Spoils

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Deep in the landlocked heart of the Midwest, the characters in The Spoils are drowning under the weight of masculinity, paralyzed in the grip of things left unsaid. These men are broken and breaking, struggling to reckon with the decisions they've made and those they have yet to face. Set mostly in and around Kansas, the stories in this powerful collection explore how men perform, in their jobs and personal lives, and investigate the gray area between doing what's best for oneself and acting a part to make others happy. A man questions whether he should leave his drug-addicted girlfriend and her son or stay, sacrificing his own well-being to be the boy's father. Fed up with the role of the stooge, a Washington Generals player takes his A-game to the Harlem Globetrotters and has to face the unforeseen consequences. A rookie prison guard sent to procure a death row inmate's final meal commits a small, subversive act of humanity. In a world where the line between right and wrong is constantly shifting, some struggle to do the right thing, while others eschew the line altogether and deal with the sometimes violent repercussions. The Spoils examines these difficult choices and will appeal to readers of literary fiction and short stories, especially readers of fiction based in the Midwest.  

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)