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Greetings from below
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- Book Synopsis
- Greetings from Below, a collection of linked short stories, chronicles the life of Nick Danze, a young copy editor who suffers from several "fixations" he believes are associated with some kind of sexual addiction. By day, Nick works for a weekly trade magazine called Footwear Today, while at night he frequents the various striptease bars, massage parlors, and swing clubs of Las Vegas and San Francisco, the two cities in which he lives throughout the book. Most of the stories are set in Las Vegas, where Nick was raised and where his widowed mother still resides, her emotional constitution slowly unraveling as she mourns Nick's recently deceased father and struggles with addictions of her own: to shopping, gambling, and pure cane sugar. The stories set in San Francisco deal mainly with Nick's longtime relationship with his girlfriend, Annie, whom he loves but with whom he isn't in love. Ultimately, through a series of episodes that spans more than twenty-five years, Nick's life is changed forever when he is forced to confront not just his own predicaments, but his mother's as well.
- About The Author
- David Philip Mullins is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his fiction has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Ecotone, Folio, and Fiction. He has won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the Silver Pen Award, and has received fellowships from Yaddo and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Creighton University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781844719150
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Salt, (15 May 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 193
- Weight
- 240 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 203 x 127 x 12 mm
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