The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: Stories Robert Boswell,
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555975240
DDC: 813.54
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-04-27
Summary:
An enthralling and wise new collection from the author of Century's
Son and one of America's most respected writersI was twenty-nine
years old and wanted to change before I hit thirty. Clete and I
developed a plan for me . .. a plan that would work all that summer
and beyond. Even after I left the mountain, it stuck.Robert Boswell’s
extraordinary range is on full display in this crackling new
collection. Set mainly in small, gritty American cities no farther
east than Chicago and as far west as El Paso, each of these stories
is a world unto itself. Two marriages end, one by death, the other by
divorce, and the two wives, lifelong friends, become strangers to
each other. A young man’s obsession with visiting a fortune-teller
leaves him nearly homeless. And in the unforgettable title story, a
man dubbed Keen recounts the summer he spent on a mountain with his
best friend, Clete, and a loose band of slackers, living in a
borrowed house, abstaining from all drugs (other than mushrooms and
beer)—and ultimately asking just what kind of harm we can do to one
another.
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