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<p>"Jim Nichols was born and raised in small town Maine. In reading his stories you will experience the life there, too: all the trials and joys of the rural, blue-collar existence as seen through the eyes of his quietly heroic characters. With spare, precise yet original language, he will draw you into his tales until you are no longer simply reading, but are living them on a visceral level. And afterward you will have added to your basic self the boy ashamed of his too-large and still-growing family; the young, already former football star facing life in a shoeshop; the desperate young man seeking magic in a blueberry rakers' trailer park." "You will still be you, but you will also be middle-aged and sad, homeless and obese, a veteran in a cave on a hill. You will be confused on an icy lake, heartsick on the midnight road, tempted to the calls of the loons." You will be Jim Nichols.</p><h3>Absinthe Literary Review</h3><p>Be aware: you'll find no action heroes or epic conflicts in Slow Monkeys, a first collection from award-winning short story writer Jim Nichols. You won't come across any wily detectives or inscrutable medical examiners, any CIA agents or conniving society mavens.

Who reads Slow Monkeys, and Other Stories?

Author

Nichols, Jim

Publisher

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780887483790

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

4.44 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14