Settlers of Unassigned Lands
In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay....
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| description | In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream does an interview with a German reporter in “The Subject of Our First Issue Is Art.” In the title story, a closeted heroin dealer follows a ghostly girl into an Oakland graveyard. And in “Rancho Brava,” the conductor of a focus group about corporate salsa keeps getting interrupted by visitors from the Old West. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the neurotic—and often all three at once—McLeod’s second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland’s lost, forgotten towns, into the lives of people trying to decipher if they can escape their pasts, and at what cost. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-382802025-03-12T21:29:06Z Settlers of Unassigned Lands McLeod, Charles Fiction thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FY Fiction: special features::FYB Short stories In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream does an interview with a German reporter in “The Subject of Our First Issue Is Art.” In the title story, a closeted heroin dealer follows a ghostly girl into an Oakland graveyard. And in “Rancho Brava,” the conductor of a focus group about corporate salsa keeps getting interrupted by visitors from the Old West. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the neurotic—and often all three at once—McLeod’s second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland’s lost, forgotten towns, into the lives of people trying to decipher if they can escape their pasts, and at what cost. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-11-09 03:00:32 2020-04-01T09:36:36Z 2015 book 1006103 OCN: 1198087305 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24030 9780472119554;9780472036202 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38280 eng 21St Century Prose open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24030/1/1006103.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24030/1/1006103.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24030/1/1006103.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24030/1/1006103.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24030/1/1006103.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24030/1/1006103.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/tfcp.13240728.0001.001 10.3998/tfcp.13240728.0001.001 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472119554;9780472036202 126 Ann Arbor open access |
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