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Stories for Boys

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Product Details

PublisherHawthorne Books
Publish DateAugust 28, 2012
Pages270
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780983477587
Dimensions8.9 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches | 0.8 pounds

About the Author

Gregory Martin is the author of "Mountain City, " a memoir of the life of a town of thirty-three people in remote northeastern Nevada, which received a Washington State Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and is referred to by some people in Mountain City as "the book." Martin's work has appeared in "The Sun, Kenyon Review Online, Creative Nonfiction, Storyquarterly, " and "Orion." He teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico. He lives in Albuquerque with his wife and two sons.

Reviews

Praise for "Stories for Boys: "
"With clean vivid descriptions, and ruthless soul-wrenching self examination, Greg Martin bravely tells a story he never imagined having to tell. The reader is privileged here, to be allowed to watch as he wrestles with his sons, his own belief systems, his urge toward forgiveness and even Walt Whitman. This finely made, deeply felt memoir restores our faith in the power of language and story to make sense of a broken world." --PAM HOUSTON, author Contents May Have Shifted
""Stories for Boys" is a charming and moving coming-of-age story, its narrator situated in the pivotal position between being his father's son and his sons' father. So refreshing and unique is Martin's treatment of the material that the reader will never mistake this book for its inferior competitors dealing with similar subjects (suicide, latent homosexuality, child abuse). One hopes this is the new wave of memoir: stories of people whose lives are not easily categorized nor dismissed. It is a sweet read." --ANTONYA NELSON, author of Bound
"Gregory Martin's "Stories for Boys" is a magnetic meditation on what happens when a decades-long lie is brutally revealed. Moving, brave, and unforgettable, this deeply personal book pushes us all further into the light." --CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild
Praise for "Mountain City: A Memoir: "
New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2000
Library Journal, Best Books of 2000
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Best Northwest Books, 2000
"Crystalline... "Mountain City, " part elegy, part defiance of the elegiac, is the winter view from northern Nevada." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"A crisp elegy to an almost vanished American West." --"Entertainment Weekly"
""Mountain City" celebrates the alternate Western seasons of promise and pessimism, arrival and abandonment. Hardened like the place he sketches against the vagaries of life, Martin writes sensitively without being maudlin
PRAISE for Stories for Boys: A Memoir:
With clean vivid descriptions, and ruthless soul-wrenching self examination, Greg Martin bravely tells a story he never imagined having to tell. The reader is privileged here, to be allowed to watch as he wrestles with his sons, his own belief systems, his urge toward forgiveness and even Walt Whitman. This finely made, deeply felt memoir restores our faith in the power of language and story to make sense of a broken world. PAM HOUSTON, author Contents May Have Shifted
Stories for Boys is a charming and moving coming-of-age story, its narrator situated in the pivotal position between being his father's son and his sons' father. So refreshing and unique is Martin's treatment of the material that the reader will never mistake this book for its inferior competitors dealing with similar subjects (suicide, latent homosexuality, child abuse). One hopes this is the new wave of memoir: stories of people whose lives are not easily categorized nor dismissed. It is a sweet read. ANTONYA NELSON, author of Bound
Gregory Martin's Stories for Boys is a magnetic meditation on what happens when a decades-long lie is brutally revealed. Moving, brave, and unforgettable, this deeply personal book pushes us all further into the light. CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild
PRAISE FOR MOUNTAIN CITY: A MEMOIR
New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2000
Library Journal, Best Books of 2000
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Best Northwest Books, 2000
"Crystalline... Mountain City, part elegy, part defiance of the elegiac, is the winter view from northern Nevada." The New York Times Book Review
"A crisp elegy to an almost vanished American West." Entertainment Weekly
"Mountain City celebrates the alternate Western seasons of promise and pessimism, arrival and abandonment. Hardened like the place he sketches against the vagaries of life, Martin writes sensitively without being maudlin, as if pity were something h

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