{"product_id":"from-the-darkness-right-under-our-feet-paperback","title":"From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick Michael Finn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutality, defeat, loneliness, and mournful longing haunt and ignite Finn's collection with an assembly of unforgettable characters confronted by life-changing crises that force them to make impossible choices. Two brothers try to survive their father's unexpected death by protecting their widowed mother from a drunken sexual vulture at a cousin's wedding reception; the last orphan in an aging foster mother's house tries to escape the abusive homophobia he faces in a rigidly-masculine Catholic high school; and a former quarry trucker, after thirty years in prison for murdering his sister's rapist, is hired as a bouncer by a Greek immigrant who tries to save his failing restaurant by transforming it into a nightclub of seductive belly dancers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in the gritty Rustbelt of Joliet, Illinois during the early 1980s, its rickety skyline of smokestacks, steeples, and rotting telephone poles, its abandoned houses, basements, quarries, and rail yards, Finn's fictional world is breathtakingly constructed with prose that is both lush and crisp, imagistic, deeply evocative, and instantly memorable.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Michael Finn's stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, TriQuarterly, Third Coast, Quarterly West, The Texas Review, The Clackamas Literary Review, Punk Planet\u003c\/i\u003e, and Houghton Mifflin's \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Mystery Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction has also received citations in the Pushcart Prize and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Patrick's short story collection, \u003ci\u003eFrom the Darkness Right Under Our Feet\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2009 Hudson Prize and was selected as a Best Book of 2011 in GQ Magazine. His other books include \u003ci\u003eA Martyr for Suzy Kosasovich\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Place for Snakes to Breed\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Arizona with his wife, poet Valerie Bandura, and their son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 26, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53193163571507,"sku":"9780982622896","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/no4KAeBqe19780982622896.webp?v=1775109318","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/from-the-darkness-right-under-our-feet-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}