Description
The 14 stories of The Dogs of Detroit each focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation. In some cases, grief drives the stories as a strong, reactionary force, and yet in other stories, that grief evolves quietly over long stretches of time. Many of the stories also use grief as a prism to explore the beguiling bonds within families. The stories span a variety of geographies, both urban and rural, often considering collisions between the two.
About the Author
Brad Felver is a fiction writer, essayist, and teacher of writing. His fiction has appeared widely in magazines such as One Story, Colorado Review, and Midwestern Gothic. His essays have appeared in New England Review, Hunger Mountain, BULL: Men's Fiction
Reviews
"Felver can be inventive with tone, diction and perspective - and heartbreakingly solemn when he wants to be. Both "The Era of Good Feelings," in which a high-school history teacher, burying his father, appraises his personal past, and "Hide-and-Seek," in which estranged brothers collide at an airport bar, coolly dissect woe amid death and regret." - Mike Peed, The New York Times Book Review
"Felver's writing is sharp and insightful. His stories evoke the style and themes of writers ranging from Richard Russo to Rick Bass to Andre Dubus III and, in the particularly brutal surrealist title story, "The Dogs of Detroit," Cormac McCarthy. A substantial debut by a promising and confident new writer." - Kirkus Reviews
"Felver lays his words down in these stories in such a precise way that it's difficult, if not impossible, to pull yourself away from a story once you've started." - Carmeron Barnett, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The Dogs of Detroit is animated by a tough-minded vision of strife and frustration, beneath which runs a streak of compassion for its bereft, often violent characters. With consummate skill and assurance, Brad Felver writes of overlooked people suffering physical and emotional deprivation, who struggle, now and again with success, in thwarted lives. Ambivalence colors the deepest relationships, with love and hate resembling an ever shifting hologram." - Lynn Sharon Schwartz
Book Information
ISBN 9780822966012
Author Brad Felver
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
About the Author
Brad Felver is a fiction writer, essayist, and teacher of writing. His fiction has appeared widely in magazines such as One Story, Colorado Review, and Midwestern Gothic. His essays have appeared in New England Review, Hunger Mountain, BULL: Men's Fiction
Reviews
"Felver can be inventive with tone, diction and perspective - and heartbreakingly solemn when he wants to be. Both "The Era of Good Feelings," in which a high-school history teacher, burying his father, appraises his personal past, and "Hide-and-Seek," in which estranged brothers collide at an airport bar, coolly dissect woe amid death and regret." - Mike Peed, The New York Times Book Review
"Felver's writing is sharp and insightful. His stories evoke the style and themes of writers ranging from Richard Russo to Rick Bass to Andre Dubus III and, in the particularly brutal surrealist title story, "The Dogs of Detroit," Cormac McCarthy. A substantial debut by a promising and confident new writer." - Kirkus Reviews
"Felver lays his words down in these stories in such a precise way that it's difficult, if not impossible, to pull yourself away from a story once you've started." - Carmeron Barnett, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The Dogs of Detroit is animated by a tough-minded vision of strife and frustration, beneath which runs a streak of compassion for its bereft, often violent characters. With consummate skill and assurance, Brad Felver writes of overlooked people suffering physical and emotional deprivation, who struggle, now and again with success, in thwarted lives. Ambivalence colors the deepest relationships, with love and hate resembling an ever shifting hologram." - Lynn Sharon Schwartz
Book Information
ISBN 9780822966012
Author Brad Felver
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
