Settlers of Unassigned Lands (21St Century Prose)

<p>In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream does an interview with a German reporter in “The Subject of Our First Issue Is Art.” In the title story, a closeted heroin dealer follows a ghostly girl into an Oakland graveyard. And in “Rancho Brava,” the conductor of a focus group about corporate salsa keeps getting interrupted by visitors from the Old West. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the neurotic—and often all three at once—McLeod’s second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland’s lost, forgotten towns, into the lives of people trying to decipher if they can escape their pasts, and at what cost.</p>

Literature & Fiction

McLeod, Charles

United States

University of Michigan Press

Meet Jim Haskin. He's forty years old. He's worth around thirty-five million. He runs a successful progressive San Francisco ad firm. His next big thing? A Death Row inmate, pay-per-view tele-vision, and America's major corporations. It will be his greatest achievement yet... AMERICAN WEATHER is a remorselessly funny novel by a writer of breathtaking talent.

American Weather

Contemporary

Outpost19

<p>Charles McLeod's NATIONAL TREASURES is a mesmerizing study of America's margins. From back-country radicals to California rent boys to a man who puts his life up on eBay, this debut collection is a coast-to-coast assemblage of the American non-mainstream. A virtuoso storyteller, McLeod employs a dazzling range of styles in these unflinching portraits of contemporary life.</p>

National Treasures

Literary

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