American Masculine: Stories

by Shann Ray

Book Overview

Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a muscular debut that reconfigures the American West

The American West has long been a place where myth and legend have flourished. Where men stood tall and lived rough. But that West is no more. In its place Shann Ray finds washedup basketball players, businessmen hiding addictions, and women fighting the inexplicable violence that wells up in these men. A son struggles to accept his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555975887
• ISBN13: 9781555975883
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.2"