內(nèi)容簡介:“Bruce Machart’s protagonists know work—whether it’s loading cedar logs into debarking drums or scouring the sludge from a drill rig’s void tanks—and they know denial, and self-denial, and compassion, because they’re mostly good men undone by loss, and by their own resentments and shortcomings. Men in the Making is a stirring and impressive collection .”—Jim Shepard, author of You Think That’s Bad “What I admire most about Bruce Machart’s Men in the Making is everything. Filled with revelatory and often gritty truths about love and work and family and courage and also defeat, he has given the world one of the most powerful short story collections you will ever encounter .”—Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time “Story by story by story, Bruce Machart gets his guys right: the crosswise emotions, the briar patch of thoughts suffered by men who either think too much or too little—the misfires and self-deceptions and tall tales, the tragic goofiness of liking mistaken for loving, the need to hide under the covers until real life goes away. Men in the Making can’t possibly be Mr. Machart’s debut collection of stories, for these are the yarns of a young master of the form .”—Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once
作者簡介:BRUCE MACHART is the author of The Wake of Forgiveness. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Glimmer Train, Story, One Story and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Best Stories of the American West. A graduate of the MFA?program at Ohio State University, Machart is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State University, and he lives in Hamilton, Massachusetts.