The deepening shade
Subtitle: new and collected stories
By: by Jake Hinkson
Publisher: All Due Respect
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Lexington, KY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781505683240
Subjects: Authors; Short stories; Écrivains; Nouvelles
Description: In his first story collection, desperate characters grasp for moments of grace : a lesbian couple running a homeless shelter try to save a young woman controlled by a self-proclaimed prophet. A stripper commits a terrible crime to protect her sister from going to jail. An alcoholic cop attempts to stop Dick Cheney from robbing a gas station. In these stories -- which range from the heartbreakingly tragic to the bizarrely funny -- characters struggle violently with each other and with themselves.