Countrycide: Stories
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9781590214930
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by L.A. Fields
Pack light, nothing heavier than a backpack, before you open the pages of L.A. Fields's collection of stories. A never-ending journey awaits you along a Mobius strip that runs the circulatory system from flushed head to rapid heart, along asphalt lanes stinking of gasoline fumes and vulcanized rubber. Join Fields's feral boys, captivating Peter Pans in flight from detestable home life, school life, everyday life. Along the way, you'll pick up passengers, hitchhikers-runaways plotting wicked larks, stay-at-homes longing for a nudge, grown ups ready to be bent to a boy's whims. Pack light, only the essentials. Make sure to keep a few crumpled emergency bills in your pocket. Then open Countrycide and set out.
Paperback, 132 pages
Pack light, nothing heavier than a backpack, before you open the pages of L.A. Fields's collection of stories. A never-ending journey awaits you along a Mobius strip that runs the circulatory system from flushed head to rapid heart, along asphalt lanes stinking of gasoline fumes and vulcanized rubber. Join Fields's feral boys, captivating Peter Pans in flight from detestable home life, school life, everyday life. Along the way, you'll pick up passengers, hitchhikers-runaways plotting wicked larks, stay-at-homes longing for a nudge, grown ups ready to be bent to a boy's whims. Pack light, only the essentials. Make sure to keep a few crumpled emergency bills in your pocket. Then open Countrycide and set out.
Paperback, 132 pages
''In L.A. Fields' Countrycide, what to the rest of America are warning sounds of fear and consternation pederastic clergymen; disaffected high schoolers with gun collections; hitchhiking horndogs hunting for adventure become full-bodied characters, tabloid buzzwords no more, but real. They populate a world with the shifting horizons of a vision; it's a dreamscape reminiscent of the early work of George Saunders or the late work of James Purdy. We consult L.A. Fields as we might a breviary, a dispensary, a mirror, one in which one's freak side can take the lineaments of a stranger or a lover.'' - Kevin Killian
"Fields’ ability to write these little vignettes with the same men and women popping up here and there and allowing personal growth is incredible." - Prism Book Alliance
"Fields’ ability to write these little vignettes with the same men and women popping up here and there and allowing personal growth is incredible." - Prism Book Alliance