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Geoffrey Becker's Dangerous Men was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His manuscript was selected from nearly three hundred submitted by published writers.In these tightly drafted stories, Becker creates a wide variety of distinct voices, peculiar characters, and odd stettings, with tantalizing emphasis on lonliness, loss, and the ever-present struggle to find one's place in the world.'It was wrong to think that our presence would linger on, though it was to this notion that I realized I'd been grasping all along,'the music-student narrator of'Dangerous Men'says after an evening involving drugs, a fight, and a car accident,'the idea that in some way we were etching ourselves onto the air, leaving shadows that would remain forever.'Many of the pieces incorporate music into the storyline. Music is a gathering point in his characters'misfit lives. In'Magister Ludi,'a seventeen-year-old girl meets up with an older local guitarist whom her younger brother has invited over to their house when their parents are gone, and plays him for her own ends:'She makes Riggy drive right through the center of town, hoping that someone will s

Author

Becker, Geoffrey, 1959-

Publisher

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822962496

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction