Stop breakin down
Subtitle: stories
By: John McManus
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780312262785
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction
Description: "What happens when ordinary people are pushed beyond their ordinary lives? What happens when we are challenged to transcend our everyday circumstances, take a fearful risk, accept the dare, perhaps change who we are? Treading a line between pain and passion, adventure and menace, Stop Breakin Down tells various stories of people driven to the brink of endurance and survival.

In the title story, a group of young people commit themselves to a drunken car chase around the Baltimore beltway; in "Gegenschein," a young student leaves his campus to submerge himself into the desolate wilderness of the Smoky Mountains; and in "The Magothy Fires," a boy seeks to become a man in an ancient ritual of pain and courage."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Megargel; title: Die like a lobster; title: The Magothy fires; title: The future is orange; title: June 1989; title: The body painters; title: Vlad the nefarious; title: The feed zone; title: Reaffirmation; title: Sleep on stones; title: Scintilla; title: Gegenschein; title: What I remember about the Cold War; title: Deseret; title: Stop breakin down.