
The Spoils
Stories
Casey Pycior(Author)
Northern Illinois University Press
Published on 15. March 2017
158 pages
978-1-60909-216-0 (ISBN)
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Deep in the landlocked heart of the Midwest, the characters in The Spoils are drowning under the weight of masculinity, paralyzed in the grip of things left unsaid. These men are broken and breaking, struggling to reckon with the decisions they've made and those they have yet to face. Set mostly in and around Kansas, the stories in this powerful collection explore how men perform, in their jobs and personal lives, and investigate the gray area between doing what's best for oneself and acting a part to make others happy. A man questions whether he should leave his drug-addicted girlfriend and her son or stay, sacrificing his own well-being to be the boy's father. Fed up with the role of the stooge, a Washington Generals player takes his A-game to the Harlem Globetrotters and has to face the unforeseen consequences. A rookie prison guard sent to procure a death row inmate's final meal commits a small, subversive act of humanity. In a world where the line between right and wrong is constantly shifting, some struggle to do the right thing, while others eschew the line altogether and deal with the sometimes violent repercussions. The Spoils examines these difficult choices and will appeal to readers of literary fiction and short stories, especially readers of fiction based in the Midwest.
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While many of the conflicts contained in this collection are heavy, the book is light and highly readable thanks to Pycior's ability to convey lived-in stories with Heartland humanity.(Necessary Fiction) Pycior reminds us with insight and empathy that while we are all broken in different ways, we are all broken.
(Lincoln Journal Star)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-60909-216-0 (9781609092160)
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03/2017
Northern Illinois University Press
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Person
Casey Pycior was born and raised in Kansas City. He earned his MFA in fiction writing at Wichita State University and his PhD in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was awarded the Charles Johnson Fiction Prize at Crab Orchard Review, and his stories have also appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Harpur Palate, BULL, Wigleaf, and Yalobusha Review, among many others. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and son.
Content
- Cover
- THE SPOILS
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Outing
- Disaster Carpenter
- Home Shopping
- Preservation
- Absolution
- If There Could've Been Another Way, I Wish That's How It'd Been
- Pinchbeck
- Luck
- Chasing a Leak
- The Current
- De Facto Romance
- Cashing In
- Pasteurization
- Through the Gears
- As Much as One Deserves
- The Spoils
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