Wrench And Other Stories

Wayne Harrison is an exciting new voice in American fiction. -- RON RASH, author of The Risen and Serena "Not since I read the stories of Breece D'J Pancake nearly thirty years ago have I felt so strongly about the debut of a writer of short fiction as I do Wayne Harrison. Among his many unforgettable characters are single mothers, young mechanics, ex-cons, recovering addicts and alcoholics, correctional officers, and a widower trying to do all he can for his toddler son. These stories crackle with a hard-earned and earthy specificity, one that suffuses Harrison's world with a light so authentic the reader cannot help but be transformed. But what I admire most about this superb collection is its profound humanity, its author's non-judgmental, compassionate, and unflinching gaze. Wayne Harrison is the real deal, and I will now read whatever he writes."-- ANDRE DUBUS III, author of House of Sand and Fog "Like Richard Russo, Philipp Meyer, and Mark Slouka, Harrison understands the rusting body of American labor. Whether or not you love cars, Harrison speaks that special dialect so fluently that anyone with a heart can hear it."-- THE WASHINGTON POST"Wayne Harrison has the rare ability to give us life as actually lived day to day, with all its threadbare passions, confusion, and shudders of almost-understanding. These are great stories, creating in a few thousand words whole worlds and lives. Harrison knows intimately the many ways we wear our lives thin then patch them up, again and again."-- JAMES SALLIS, author of Drive"Harrison has a gift for evoking working class lives in all their disorientation, threat, and quietness. And like the later Carver, his focus is on generosity, on moments when lives intersect and expand. Tragedy here isn't meanness but can be the ache of wanting to help someone and having to watch them destroy themselves anyway. These stories are elegant and powerful and ultimately about our resilience."-- DAVID VANN, author of Goat Mountain and Aquarium

Author: Wayne Harrison

Publisher: New American Press

Publication Date: Jul 15, 2017

Number of Pages: 184 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1941561098

ISBN-13: 9781941561096