A Scholar of Pain Contributor(s): Jerkins, Grant (Author) |
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ISBN: 1946502154 ISBN-13: 9781946502155 Publisher: ABC Group Documentation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.67 lbs) 236 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In his debut short fiction collection, A Scholar of Pain, Grant Jerkins remains--as the Washington Post put it--"Determined to peer into the darkness and tell us exactly what he sees." Here, the depth of that darkness is on evident, oftentimes poetic, display. We meet, and come reluctantly to sympathize with: The office chair-sniffer who only wants to be loved, a bottomed-out cough-syrup addict, a terminally ill school bus driver who takes her young riders on a drunken suicide run, and a cheated-on housewife who discovers her husband's other woman isn't a woman at all, but a...No spoilers here. Just read it. Read all sixteen of these deviant diversions. Peer into the darkness. |