{"product_id":"drowned-boy-jerry-gabriel-9781932511789","title":"Drowned Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These [stories] are rust-belt blues, then, a vision of and lament for a past time and a swiftly changing place. They're not showy--the language is plain, the tragedy muted, the comedy low-key and wry--but they stick in the mind. Ray Carver would recognize these characters and situations, as would poet Philip Levine. I like to think that they would share my appreciation for this fine first book, built slowly and carefully over some years, and worth the wait.\"--Andrea Barrett\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Gabriel delivers an unsentimental portrait of rural America in \u003ci\u003eDrowned Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of linked stories that reveals a world of brutality, beauty, and danger in the forgotten landscape of small-town basketball tournaments and family reunions. In \"Boys Industrial School,\" two brothers track an escaped juvenile convict, while in the titular novella, a young man and woman embark on a haphazard journey to find meaning in the death of a high-school classmate. These stories probe the fraught cusp of adulthood, the frustrations of escape and difference, and the emotional territory of disappointment--set in the hardscrabble borderlands where Appalachia meets the Midwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerry Gabriel\u003c\/b\u003e studied at Ohio State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has worked as a science writer and taught writing at a number of colleges and universities, including, from 2001 to 2008, Cornell University's Engineering Communications Program. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerry Gabriel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932511784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932511789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/12\/2009 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2009 pg. 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2009","brand":"Jerry Gabriel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46927924592895,"sku":"9781932511789","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8672533d-20c2-4f38-8d4e-37a30a0234ef.jpg?v=1749373393","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drowned-boy-jerry-gabriel-9781932511789","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}