Men in the Making: Stories (Signed First Edition)

Bruce Machart

ISBN 10: 0156034441 / ISBN 13: 9780156034449

Published by Houghtn Mifflin Harcourt, New York., 2011

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. New/new. A perfect unread copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, his name only, without any other marks. His second book, a fine collection of short stories.

Seller Inventory # 1614

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Men in the Making: Stories (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghtn Mifflin Harcourt, New York.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156034441
• ISBN 13: 9780156034449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

From the critically acclaimed author of The Wake of Forgiveness—“a mesmerizing, mythic saga,” as described by the New York Times—come ten remarkable stories that uncover unexpected beauty in the struggles of the modern American male.

Like Richard Russo, Bruce Machart has a profound knowledge of the male psyche and a gift for conveying the absurdity and brutality of daily life with humor and compassion. Whether they find themselves walking the fertile farmland of south Texas, steering trucks through the suffocating sprawl of Houston, or turning logs into paper in the mills just west of the Sabine River, the men of these stories seek to prove themselves in a world that doesn’t always welcome them. Here are men whose furrows are never quite straight and whose hearts are near to bursting with all the desires they have been told they aren’t supposed to heed.

“Bruce Machart is one of our most ambitious and fearless young writers. With Men in the Making, he has composed a remarkable paean to the complex fragility of the American male. I read these stories in a state of tender amazement.”—Steve Almond, author of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life

About the Author

BRUCE MACHART is the author of The Wake of Forgiveness. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Glimmer Train, Story, One Story and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Best Stories of the American West. A graduate of the MFA program at Ohio State University, Machart is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State University, and he lives in Hamilton, Massachusetts.