Gas Station

By Joseph Torra

In a stream of consciousness, the narrator recounts his tale of working at the gas station with his father.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944072674
• ISBN13: 9780944072677
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Zoland Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Stylistically gorgeous

I read this book in one sitting and found it exceptional. The author's style is unique, although it is a little reminiscent of Henry Green. The picture that is painted is gritty and absolutely true of the working class Boston suburbs that I have known. You should not buy this book if you are allergic to "experimental" literature, that is, literature which disobeys conventions about what sentences must be like and what a narrative must, simplistically, accomplish. You should buy this book if your taste in prose tends toward the lyrical and poetic in style, you aren't afraid to have to think a little, and you want to hear the voice of someone from the underside of the class divide in America. Torra's other novels in the trilogy, _My Ground_ and _Tony Luongo_ are even better.