| Acid Contributor(s): Falco, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0268006474 ISBN-13: 9780268006471 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95-16887 |
| Series: Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.45" W x 8.42" (0.64 lbs) 202 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this award-winning collection of short stories Edward Falco narrates the lives and times of our contemporaries, characters off the dizzying streets of end of the century America. Within these pages we meet such characters as Matt, the Midwestern boy who turns his back on an apple-pie lifestyle for the dubious pleasures of life as a drug-smuggler and guitarist for the Flesh Puppets; and Jim Renkowski, drug dealer turned family man whose run-in with the past is only as bad as his worst nightmare. Through characters like these, Falco unmasks the difficult truths that engage us at the deepest levels of our being. The stories in Acid entertain and engage us and, in the end, make new again some of the oldest and most intractable human struggles. |
Contributor Bio(s): Falco, Edward: - Edward Falco is an American author. His stories have been published widely in journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and TriQuarterly, and collected in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies, including, Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium. An early innovator in the field of digital writing, Falco's literary and experimental hypertexts are taught in universities internationally. His online work includes Self-Portrait as Child w/Father (Iowa Review Web), Circa 1967-1968 (Eastgate Reading Room), and "Charmin' Cleary" (Eastgate Reading Room). Falco's work also appears in the online journal Blackbird. |
