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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Among Prisoners

Among Prisoners

Manley, Frank

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ISBN10: 1566890896
ISBN13: 9781566890892
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Feb 1 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
In the tradition of Flannery O'Connor, Manley presents a cultural snapshot that is poignant, grotesque, ironic, fascinating.

In this searing new collection of stories by the acclaimed author of The Cockfighter, Frank Manley continues his deft exploration of the underside of the American experience. Manley presents a cultural snapshot that is poignant, ironic, and ultimately riveting, as he examines the bleak landscape of racial prejudice and fear that isolates people from one another and lies at the heart of their own loneliness. In Mister Butterfly an aging prison guard, imprisoned by blind rage and disappointment, marries Asian mail-order brides and, after disposing of them, complains of being lonely and lost. In The Housekeeper a fifty-year-old widow falls in love for the first time with the priest who employs her. In The Indian Way a white man criticizes Native Americans for having lost what he calls the Way, meaning their traditional culture, only to realize at the end that he has lost the Way himself. Manley's stories are set in the South as he explores an aspect of the American psyche that spans geographic and economic divisions. Manley's contemporary characters are prisoners of their own view of the world and their own beliefs and prejudices about those who are different from them.

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