Visigoth
By: Gary Amdahl.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781571310514
Description: Amdahl presents hapless young men acting tough to conceal their dread of adulthood. In the title story, a star college hockey player unable to curb his boiling rage only half-jokingly identifies with the barbarians of old. In "The Volunteer," the well-employed yet disaffected narrator names John Updike and John Cheever the ur-bards of male misery, terrain Amdahl rips up like a tank bashes asphalt in brash and bloody yet astutely crafted stories of angst unlimited.
Table of contents: title: The flyweight; title: Visigoth; title: The bouncers; title: The volunteer; title: Flight from California; title: The barber-chair; title: The free fall; title: Narrow road to the deep north.