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9780870138065

Mr. Pleasant

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  • ISBN13:

    9780870138065

  • ISBN10:

    0870138065

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-09-01
  • Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
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Summary

In this collection of powerful and deeply humane short stories, Jim Ray Daniels' characters struggle to find themselves in a society that has cast them aside. As they make their way under the permanently gray skies of Michigan's lower peninsula, they try to come to terms with their lives, searching for a pleasant place, for someone who will love them or will simply make them feel safe.

Author Biography

Jim Ray Daniels is a Professor and Director of the Creative Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Table of Contents

The human errorp. 1
United States street footballp. 23
No man's landp. 37
Mr. Pleasantp. 51
The Chippewa lacrosse trickp. 69
Society of friendsp. 85
Closing costsp. 99
Marathon dancep. 111
Bouncy Castlep. 133
In a cavernp. 153
Short seasonp. 165
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