Misadventure
By: Nicholas Grider
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780989275934
Subjects: American Short stories; Bondage (Sexual behavior); Fiction
Description: "A bracing debut collection that maps what happens when desire and control between men goes awry.  In Misadventure, maen search for themselves, for each other, for the sources of sanity and sickness, power and grief.  Grider challenges the conventional gay narrative and asks the reader to reimagine the kind of work short fiction should do.  This book will grab you by the throat, but be warned--it may not let go."  -- back cover.
Notes: A Rumpus Book Club Selection.
Table of contents: title: Millions of Americans are strange; title: Section one.  Disappearing act; title: Somewhere else entirely; title: black metallic; title: Formers (an index); title: Within reason; title: Escapology; title: Clean and friendly; title: Happy ending.  Section two. Misadventure; title: Liars; title: Labor; title: Nightfall; title: Push, push, push; title: This is not a romance; title: Cowboys.