Blow Up the Ashes - Glasser, Perry
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"Blow Up the Ashes, Vol 2 of American Mayhem, continues with the story of Pierre Doucet, a Cajun kid who during World War 2 hustles con games on the streets of New Orleans, a lethal world steeped in jambalaya, fancy women, sailors, and criminals. Pierre's skills enable him to become a professional gambler at illegal casinos, and then soon become a hired killer for the mob. When he seeks to escape that life, he finds it not simple to do. With the mob in pursuit because he knows too much, Pierre flees to New York. On a rainy day in a Greenwich Village bookstore a clerk looks vaguely familiar.…mehr

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"Blow Up the Ashes, Vol 2 of American Mayhem, continues with the story of Pierre Doucet, a Cajun kid who during World War 2 hustles con games on the streets of New Orleans, a lethal world steeped in jambalaya, fancy women, sailors, and criminals. Pierre's skills enable him to become a professional gambler at illegal casinos, and then soon become a hired killer for the mob. When he seeks to escape that life, he finds it not simple to do. With the mob in pursuit because he knows too much, Pierre flees to New York. On a rainy day in a Greenwich Village bookstore a clerk looks vaguely familiar. The clerk is KJ, a girl Pierre last saw when she departed by railroad to college. They unite and together hope to find KJ's runaway daughter, Buckles. Buckles, KJ, and Pierre find each other in San Francisco where Buckles with Pierre's aid plans her revenge on the man who raped her seven years earlier."--
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Perry Glasser has been awarded prizes for his work as in the novel, the novella, short fiction, memoir, and flash fiction. His work has twice been read on National Public Radio and has three times won P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards. He has been a fellow at The Norman Mailer House, Ucross, Yaddo, and a scholar at Bread Loaf. His memoir, "Iowa Black Dirt," about being a single parent, was awarded First Prize by The Good Men Foundation, and appears in the Foundation's anthology. His story, "I-95, Southbound" in 2009 received First Prize in the Gival Press Short Story Award contest. Perry has been a Contributing Editor of North American Review since 1994. Perry began his career in 1969, standing before chalkboards in an inner city high school in Brooklyn, NY, a place that was everything you imagine "inner city" means--except that this public school was all girls. He stayed a decade before going for his MFA degree in Fiction Writing at the University of Arizona. He taught until his retirement and has written ever since.