With a voice that maintains a gritty strength balanced with poetic vision, Barry Graham pushes all his chips to the center of the table in this collection of from the gut short stories that are as sentimental as they are cynical. Set in America's underbelly-from dead-end small towns with their futile Virginity Pledges to larger than life Las Vegas with it's own brand of lust and deception-Graham populates his stories with a reoccurring cast of confused, helpless, hopeless, beautiful, dirty, optimistic, loveable down-and-outs trapped in lives and relationships they are unable to control.
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For Bukowski and Ray Carver fans, but Graham is Very Much His Own Writer,
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This review is from: The National Virginity Pledge: Short Stories and Other Lies (Paperback)
I love the ugly/beauty of Graham's characters, the precise details of their lives, the richness of their rage and lust. I love the integrity with which Graham caresses these hopeless souls, the people in his book's world. Human life is so miraculous and so sordid and wrong and beautiful and Graham knows this and spews this knowledge onto every page. This is fine, fine stuff. I highly recommend it. These stories will stay with you, long after you finish reading them, like a treasured scar after a honest scrape.
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finely executed fiction,
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This review is from: The National Virginity Pledge: Short Stories and Other Lies (Paperback)
These carefully and often playfully wrought, muscular stories capture sometimes ugly but always self-redeeming currents of American culture.
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