In The Course of Human Events
A Novel
Published on 14. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-59376-608-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Battered, bruised, and bloodied by the economic collapse, Clyde Twitty has all but given up hope for the future... Enter Jay Smalls, a charismatic martial artist who exerts an intense magnetic pull. Under Jay's brutal instruction, Clyde begins a series of increasingly frightening tests that draw him into a seedy underworld of bare-knuckle fighting, brazen criminal acts, homemade drugs, and homegrown extremism. Jay reshapes Clyde into a fearless fighter--and directs his burning anger at a deserving target: the government"--Dust jacket flap.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59376-608-5 (9781593766085)
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Mike Harvkey grew up in rural northwest Missouri, near the city of Independence, a crystal meth stronghold long before Breaking Bad. When he moved to New York in 2001 to attend Columbia's Creative Writing MFA Program as a Bingham Fellow, he began training Kyokushin, a brutal form of martial art known for bare-knuckle fighting, and was promoted to black belt in 2006. One of his short stories won Zoetrope All-Story Magazine's short fiction contest; others have been published in Mississippi Review and Alaska Quarterly Review.