Such a Good Man

Dustin M Hoffman

ISBN 10: 0299352447 / ISBN 13: 9780299352448

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2025

About this Item

In these inventive and formally daring stories, Dustin M. Hoffman shines a light into the dark corners of American suburbia. The housepainters, contractors, formerly incarcerated carnival workers, and fathers that populate these pages are doing their best to overcome life?s brutal indifference. Characters sometimes face unusual situations: one plays infinite games of Monopoly with God, while the Man in the Yellow Hat must decide how to react when a window washer is hospitalized with serious injuries. Mostly, though, they navigate the challenges of grief, poverty, and arguments with siblings that many of us will find all too familiar.  With brilliance and perception, Hoffman interrogates the intersections of labor and masculinity, peeling back the spackled facades of class, family, and domesticity. Such a Good Man depicts darkness, cruelty, and absurdity without flinching?and reveals the eternal human desire for intimacy, especially when it remains just out of reach.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Such a Good Man
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299352447
• ISBN 13: 9780299352448
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In these inventive and formally daring stories, Dustin M. Hoffman shines a light into the dark corners of American suburbia. The housepainters, contractors, formerly incarcerated carnival workers, and fathers that populate these pages are doing their best to overcome life’s brutal indifference. With brilliance and perception, Hoffman interrogates the intersections of labor and masculinity, peeling back the spackled facades of class, family, and domesticity. Such a Good Man depicts darkness, cruelty, and absurdity without flinching—and reveals the eternal human desire for intimacy, especially when it remains just out of reach.

About the Author

Dustin M. Hoffman is the author of the story collections One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and No Good for Digging, as well as the fiction chapbook Secrets of the Wild. He spent ten years painting houses in Michigan and now lives in South Carolina and teaches creative writing at Winthrop University.