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Place is a character in Patrick Michael Finns fiction. It's almost as if the setting, like the working-class characters who people his stories, has an ethnicity. The characters try to go on with their lives while the place broods and mourns around them. And all the while the narratives driven by credible psychological pressure grow increasingly threatening until the elegiac becomes rage. This is artful storytelling. Stuart Dybek, author of I Sailed with Magel lan Let us all hope that From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet is just the first of many story collections by Patrick Michael Finn. Populated with destitute strippers, damaged punks, polka lovers, bereaved widows, and the chronic unemployed amid lard factories and Catholic churches and gritty streets, these are the kind of stories that Balzac might have written if he had visited the economically ravaged American Midwest in the early 1980s. With the force of a massive heart attack brought on by a steady diet of corn-beef hash and Camel cigarettes and hard, hard living, Finn has put Joliet, Illinois on the literary map forever. It is an awesome book by a great, great writer. Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff Brutal

Author

Patrick Michael Finn

Publisher

Black Lawrence Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936873487

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.33 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14