Junk city : stories and poems /
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| Author / Creator: | Boilard, Jon, author. |
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| Imprint: | Livingston, Alabama, United States : Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama, 2020. ©2020 |
| Description: | 222 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12635039 |
| Summary: | Set in San Francisco, the stories and poems in JUNK CITY are linked by characters and the characters are linked by addiction in one form or another. You¿ll meet a hard-drinking mail carrier struggling to find deeper meaning when he comes across a suicide on his route; a seasoned city cop trying to make it to retirement before he ends up viral on YouTube; a teenage runaway selling his body for dope; an aging stripper named Eskimo convinced she can turn over a new leaf by getting her poetry chapbook published (and whose poems link the stories); a cross-dressing accountant running a Ponzi scheme on his clients; and a legend of the local street fighting scene whose life is spiraling out of control in a swirl of brown booze and pain pills. The characters that roam these pages live in a shadowy world, but from time to time slivers of light manage to break through the fog. |
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| Physical Description: | 222 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1604892625 9781604892628 1604892617 9781604892611 |
