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Informationen zum Autor Dustin M. Hoffman painted houses in Michigan for ten years and is now an assistant professor of English at Winthrop University in South Carolina. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, Midwestern Gothic, and Cimarron Review, and his story “Building Walls” received a Pushcart Prize special mention. Klappentext Dustin M. Hoffman painted houses in Michigan for ten years and is now¿an assistant professor of English at Winthrop University in South Carolina. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines! including Threepenny Review! Black Warrior Review! Puerto del Sol! Midwestern Gothic! and Cimarron Review! and his story "Building Walls" received a Pushcart Prize special mention. ¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung Rare voices in fiction, the lives of the working class consume this collection. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist brings to life the narratives of midwestern blue-collar workers. In these sixteen stories, author Dustin M. Hoffman invites readers to peek behind the curtain of the invisible-but-ever-present “working stiff”. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Pushing the Knives One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist Sawdust and Glue Can Picking Everything a Snake Needs The Fire Chasers Subdivision Accidents Ice-Cream Dream We Ride Back The Shepherd’s Work Conch Tongue One More for You Strong as Paper Men Building Walls Workmen’s Compensation Touching in Texas
