Original sentence: "'I haven't read a book in years,' reflects one of the bitter dudes in Lange's gutsy new collection."Stylistically brilliant, painfully and truly observed and rendered, 'Dead Boys' is not just one of the best collections thus far this decade: 'Dead Boys' is one of the best short story collections of the past 50 years, right up there with Barry Hannah's 'Airships,' Chris Offutt's 'Kentucky Straight,' James Baldwin's 'Going to Meet the Man' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find."The stories in 'Dead Boys' ... are all possessed of a sure tone, a wealth of telling detail and a headlong narrative energy.' Now someone has.'Dead Boys' marks the emergence of a compelling new talent.'I stopped because no one was writing about me.'Promising' is a word bestowed on too many young writers, but in this case it's apt.Entertainment Weekly.In these potent tales, unhappy males hang on to dismal jobs in cubicles, kill time in seedy doughnut shops, and cling to pathetic dreams of escape.Los Angeles Times.San Francisco Chronicle.The only beauty to be found in this grim volume is Lange's extraordinary craftmanship