- Featured Magazines
- Let's Get Cooking!
- News, Politics, and Business
- Lifestyle Magazines
- Popular Magazines
- All Magazines
- See all
-
Description
-
Details
-
Reviews
In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water.
It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.
By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
Kindle Book
- Release date: September 17, 2013
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780804149754
- Release date: September 17, 2013
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780804149754
- File size: 2794 KB
- Release date: September 17, 2013
Loading
Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
Languages
English
Levels
Lexile® Measure:870
Text Difficulty:4-5