Gabriel Houck

You or a Loved One (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his debut story collection, You or a Loved One, recipient of The 2017 Orison Fiction Prize, selected by David Haynes, Gabriel Houck ushers readers into the hidden worlds of working-class people and their families, delivering their stories in raw, unflinching prose. An unhappy switchboard operator at SaveLine comforts distressed callers while her own life collapses around her. A man hired to perform choreographed fights for children in a Spider-Man costume comes undone and breaks a client's jaw. An adolescent Dungeon Master discovers the fact of his queerness while traversing the spooky realm that lies beyond childhood. And a lonesome bachelor hides a fugitive woman in his underground bunker while reckoning with the ghosts of dead loved ones.

With sly wit and tenderness, Houck swings open a door into a peculiar existence that few writers are willing to enter. Even more remarkably, You or a Loved One captures those rarest of moments when a character hears an uncanny whisper of comfort from nowhere or defies the unrelenting tug of gravity and glides out into the void. While shining a light on those who often hover in the periphery in life, Houck's stories recall the strange tales of grief and redemption we privately tell our loved ones and ourselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orison Books
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949039290
• Artikelnr.: 53007853

Autorenporträt

Gabriel Houck is originally from New Orleans, where his family still lives and in which many of the stories in You or a Loved One are set. Houck holds an MFA from the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is currently a Lecturer in the English Department. His story "When the Time Came" was selected as a distinguished story in the 2015 edition of The Best American Short Stories, edited by T.C. Boyle, and other stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Glimmer Train, The Sewanee Review, Mid American Review (2014 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize), Western Humanities Review, New Delta Review, Grist, PANK, Fourteen Hills, Bayou, Fiction Southeast, Sequestrum, The Cimarron Review, and The Pinch, among other places.