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What Fat City did for club boxing, taking it and using the profession to expose and explore the men and women who live, love and ultimately tend to lose at society s fringes, Roberge does here in Drive. This is a dark, funny, compassionate novel from a writer who has been called "...the laureate of that marginalized demographic, a professor of the articulately disenfranchised..."
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"A seriously talented writer, Roberge is an explorer of the everyday. Chicken franchises. Florida. The micro-politics of sex. That's where this book lives. So do I. So do you. My advice--spend the money, buy the book, take the ride." --Francois Camoin, Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award
"I picked up Drive and I didn't put it down. The people in this book are sharp and damaged and they won't let you go even when you've finished reading." --Katie Arnoldi, author of Chemical Pin
"What we need are more stories that back us into corners. We need books that show teeth, and Roberge has given us one in Drive." --Darrell Spencer, Winner of the Drue Heinz Award
"Drive lets you know that the world isn't always as simple as winning and losing, it's sometimes just enough to survive. Drive cements Rob Roberge's place as the voice of the underbelly." --Tod Goldberg, author of Living Dead Girl and Fake Liar Cheat
About the Author
ROB ROBERGE is the author of More Than They Could Chew (Dark Alley/Harper Collins, 2005). His short fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Chelsea, Washington Square Review, Other Voices, Alaska Quarterly Review and Fatal Embrace, and the anthologies, Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights Books, 2001) and It's All Good (Manic D Press, 2004). He writes, plays and sings with the garage bands, The Danbury Shakes, The Violet Rays and The Chairs of Perception. He is on the faculty at the UCLA Extension and Antioch College (Los Angeles). He lives in Long Beach, California. More information is available at: myspace.com/robroberge.
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Drive
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Doublewide Press, Long Beach, CA, 2002
ISBN 10: 0971198632
ISBN 13: 9780971198630
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Seller: Bungalow Books, ABAA, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Roberge. Rubbing to the covers. A debut novel centered around the Sarasota Sun, a minor league basketball team in the newly formed (fictional) Gulf Coast League. By the author of More Than They Could Chew. ; 123 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 7004