Rabbit Punches: Stories - Softcover

Ockert, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972336354 ISBN 13: 9780972336352

Publisher: Low Fidelity Press, 2006

Synopsis

Riotously funny, beautifully written, and charged with emotional intelligence, this well-crafted debut investigates the world from the fringe through characters who stray so far from convention they seem to inhabit another universe. Whether it's Alston Goldstein ferrying drugs around Florida on his yellow moped, a young man fighting his entire neighborhood to find a suitable husband for his pregnant sister, or a man preparing to arm wrestle Jesus, these 13 stories hinge on the interplay between middle-class normality and capricious heroes, transporting readers to a tenderly evoked world where the real and the absurd at last make peace. This fictional masterpiece is for readers who love Americana, root for the underdog, and delight in the approach of the next great voice in southern eccentricity.

About this title

About the Author:

Jason Ockert is the winner of the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest and the Mary Roberts Rinehart National Fiction Award. His stories have appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, and McSweeney's. He lives in Farmington, New York.

Review:

"The writing is hip but not terminally hip, fun, at times very fun, and contains signs that the author is disturbed enough to be worth watching." —Padgett Powell, author, Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men

"Ockert forges a comic dialectic of alienation and integration in this quirky southern universe. —Mary Caponegro, author, Tales from the Next Village


"Crack scribbler Jason Ockert hits the ground running with this mordant knee-slapper." —J. Robert Lennon, author, Mailman

About this edition

• Publisher: Low Fidelity Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0972336354
• ISBN 13: 9780972336352
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 184