Right Man for the Job, A Novel - Hardcover

Magnuson, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060187107 ISBN 13: 9780060187101

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

Dewy, a black man, and his partner, Gunnar, a white Wisconsin farmboy, spend their time working as "repo men" in a tough inner-city neighborhood, until an unresponsive customer triggers a tragedy that sends Gunnar's life hurtling out of control. A first novel. $30,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

This superb first novel, beautifully written in minor keys that reveal the omnipresent sadness of narrator Gunnar Lund, is set on the cash-strapped streets of a rough section of Columbus, Ohio. Gunnar is an alien from Wisconsin, and has a job as a bill collector and repo man for a company that rents home appliances; he's also a white man moving through a largely African American world. Well-told, stark, gritty and realistic, The Right Man for the Job is also an extremely successful study of race in this country. It puts on no sociological airs; it simply talks honestly about white people and black people, and how they treat each other.

About the Author:

Mike Magnuson is the author of The Right Man for the Job and The Fire Gospels. He teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060187107
• ISBN 13: 9780060187101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304