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All Good Men
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $27.00
ISBN13: 9781972693049
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Published: Apr 6 2027
Pages: 250
Language: English
A bold and devastating debut from recent contributor to The New Yorker Libby Flores; a daring leap into the fraught questions haunting the inner lives of a cast of contemporary men.
Libby Flores is quite simply one of my favorite writers. Her fictions lift the mirror up to a world that is both recognizable and yet fiercely expands our sense of ourselves and our place here...
-Paul Yoon, award-winning author of Etna and The Hive and the Honey
In All Good Men, Libby Flores inhabits the male perspective and upends millennia of a dominant gaze, turning it back on itself. In these bold and brilliant stories, the state of man is explored like the rooms of a vast but crumbling house, from love and betrayal, parenthood and tragedy, to the cruel competition that often defines them.
Intimate and unsparing, each story brings us into the moments when life-altering choices are made: a group of five childhood friends, now men with their own lives and responsibilities, find themselves at a party dealing with a body; a landscaper follows his dying wife as she embarks on an affair; two college lovers reunite on a beach, one with something to confess; a sound wakes up a husband and father in the middle of the night, calling him to investigate; and what happens when an insurance broker opens a bathroom door at a party and sees his wife's legs wrapped around a stranger.
Libby Flores stays with these men through vulnerability, stupidity, lust, and violence. She interrogates the decisions made within the narrow margins of masculinity--and the consequences that affect everyone in their orbit. The private, the unvarnished--we are invited to see it all. Flores shines a light into the dark, delivering portraits of men at their most unguarded. And in her final story, she offers a provocative, dazzling rebuttal.
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