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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Grind

Grind

Maynard, Mark

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Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1937226034
ISBN13: 9781937226039
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: Dec 18 2012
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

This is prime American fiction--tough, generous, and open-eyed.
--ALYSON HAGY

Mark Maynard's debut collection of linked short stories examines the characters of a town whose means and meanings are eroding away. In Grind, a homeless man wins the jackpot--and a large stack of pancakes (Jackpot); a prison inmate trains a horse toward life beyond the gates (Penned); a truck driver with the IQ of a child drives his empty rig up and down the interstate as an homage to his dead mother (Deadheading); a topless teen sunbathes on her roof as fighter planes careen overhead (Sirens); a grieving woman stores her breast milk behind the frozen peas (Letdown); and a pawnshop owner catalogues his wares by the natures of their violent pasts (Trading Up). In these stories, pleasure is cheap, heartbreak is a given, the past is dwindling away and the future is unsettlingly uncertain.

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