THE STREETS OF GREENFIELD: Tough People. Tough Times. Tough Town. - Couverture souple

Grate, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798988371601

Editeur : E.C. Grate Creative Content, LLC, 2023

Synopsis

They used to call it Little Chicago. The people who live there just call it home.

Greenfield, Ohio sits in the Appalachian foothills, a factory town that peaked somewhere around 1965 and never got the news. In seventeen linked stories, Eric Grate walks you down its streets decade by decade, from a death-row cell in 1957 to the meth-lit shadows of today.

A boy rides the Ferris wheel on the best day of summer, and what he sees from the top will follow him the rest of his life. A war hero drinks his ghosts quiet on the long walk home from the beer joints. A waitress turned working girl digs up a secret the whole town helped bury, and decides somebody is finally going to pay. Two stepbrothers haul a load of trouble to Kentucky for the local kingpin, and when the deal goes sideways, they handle it the only way Greenfield knows how.

The same names keep turning up. The kid on the Ferris wheel grows into the town drunk. The pool hall hustler's nephew heads west to start over. Pearl pours the coffee and hears everything. Story by story, the town assembles itself into something bigger than any one life in it: brutal and funny, profane and tender, gone and not gone.

Raised in Greenfield's tough South End, Grate writes his hometown the way only a native son can, with clear eyes and a busted-knuckle kind of love.

For readers of Winesburg, Ohio, Knockemstiff, and Olive Kitteridge.

Adult literary fiction: strong language, violence, and hard living, with dark humor throughout.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: E.C. Grate Creative Content, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798988371601
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
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