Driftless Quintet
Joe Sacksteder
(Author)
Description
When high school hockey phenom (and gifted pianist/composer) Colton Vogler transfers to the town of Driftless to play out his senior year, he's one step closer to a career as a professional goalie. But a violent hazing incident, an increasingly erratic host family, and the mystery surrounding a car accident that paralyzed his predecessor on the team lead Colton to gradually suspect that things in Driftless are not as they seem--and that, rather than serving as assets, his youth, intellect, and physical talent have put him in grave danger.
Product Details
Price
$16.99
$15.80
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Publish Date
November 01, 2019
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.5 X 7.9 X 0.9 inches | 0.84 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781943156863
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About the Author
Joe Sacksteder is the author of the short story collection Make/Shift (Sarabande Books) and the album Fugitive Traces (Punctum Books). His writing has appeared in Salt Hill, Ninth Letter, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He's the Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Reviews
"An admirably strange and inventive debut novel. Driftless Quintet is about hockey the way End Zone was about football. What the pigskin was for DeLillo, the hockey puck is for Sacksteder: a petri dish full of American paranoia and poison, perfect for measuring our cultures of belligerence, masculinity, sports psychosis, conspiracy theorizing, white supremacy, and empire. Funny, fevered, and unclassifiable, Driftless Quintet perfects the hybrid genre it invents-coming-of-age, small-town conspiracy, postmodern hockey noir-and introduces Sacksteder, like his gumshoe goalie Colton Vogler, as a talent worth scouting." BENNETT SIMS Author of White Dialogues
"As a writer, Joe Sacksteder is always surprising me. With his language, his leaps of faith, his deep and confounding characters. Driftless Quintet is a novel full of these surprises, but it's so, so much more. It's thrilling, terrifying and heartwarming and human, a book that will reward multiple readings and ponderings until Sacksteder surprises us again." JARED YATES SEXTON Author of The Man They Wanted Me To Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
"Eerie and brilliant, Joe Sacksteder's Driftless Quintet captures young maleness on the razor edge between cruelty and creativity. This sinister midwestern wormhole will immerse and surprise you at every turn, from the hockey rink to the end of the world." HENRY HOKE Author of Genevieves
"As a writer, Joe Sacksteder is always surprising me. With his language, his leaps of faith, his deep and confounding characters. Driftless Quintet is a novel full of these surprises, but it's so, so much more. It's thrilling, terrifying and heartwarming and human, a book that will reward multiple readings and ponderings until Sacksteder surprises us again." JARED YATES SEXTON Author of The Man They Wanted Me To Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
"Eerie and brilliant, Joe Sacksteder's Driftless Quintet captures young maleness on the razor edge between cruelty and creativity. This sinister midwestern wormhole will immerse and surprise you at every turn, from the hockey rink to the end of the world." HENRY HOKE Author of Genevieves
