11 stories
By: Chris Cander
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Rubber Tree Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780988946507
Subjects: Apartment houses; Janitors; Musicians with disabilities; Fiction
Other titles: Eleven stories
Description: When Roscoe Jones, a one-time trumpet prodigy, loses his finger, he loses more than his ability to play. Instead of becoming a musician, he becomes the superintendent of the Chicago apartment building where he has lived since birth. Very soon, his life is no longer his own; he fades into the background, plumbing and fixing and toiling for the tenants populating the eleven stories above him. Although they hardly notice him as anything but a working part of the building, he develops a sometimes uncomfortable intimacy with the details of their complicated lives.--From back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.