· The divine and the base is one popular answer — from Ancient Greek thought to the doctrine of original sin and beyond. The middling, mostly male characters of Middle Men, the debut story collection from Los Angeles writer Jim Gavin, are just so situated. But the list of poles they find themselves between goes farther. · No one aspires to be a “middle man” – a low-paid assistant, a traveling salesman, a boy who lingers on the cusp of basketball greatness. Jim Gavin’s eight stories all focus on a man who knows, deep down inside, that he will not exit the world in a /5(). · A generous humanity and a fond wit animate Jim Gavin’s wonderful first collection, “Middle Men.”. Gavin’s stories revolve around a familiar theme Author: Marisa Silver.
Middle Men Stories by Jim Gavin available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. A powerful, funny, and wise debut from a writer Esquire praises as "the second coming of Denis. Gavin's exceptional debut collection, set mainly in southern California, harkens to an earlier literary Los Angeles, that of Nathanael West, who, in The Day of the Locust, called Hollywood a "dream dump the Sargasso of the imagination.". Gavin's bleakly funny, inventive stories feature hapless men caught between dire, pitiless reality—busted loves, dead parents, stillborn careers—and a. Middle Men is a very powerful debut." — Sam Lipsyte "With its sharply drawn characters, its humor and affection and melancholy, its deep wisdom of the ways we live and cope and endure, and its panoramic and precise vision of California, Middle Men is a phenomenal story collection, and Jim Gavin an extravagantly talented writer. I could.
A powerful, funny, and wise debut from a writer Esquire praises as “the second coming of Denis. The divine and the base is one popular answer — from Ancient Greek thought to the doctrine of original sin and beyond. The middling, mostly male characters of Middle Men, the debut story collection from Los Angeles writer Jim Gavin, are just so situated. But the list of poles they find themselves between goes farther. No one aspires to be a “middle man” – a low-paid assistant, a traveling salesman, a boy who lingers on the cusp of basketball greatness. Jim Gavin’s eight stories all focus on a man who knows, deep down inside, that he will not exit the world in a blaze of glory but gamely takes what life has to offer.
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