We Find Ourselves In Moontown - Softcover
Jay Gummerman's special territory is a place populated by characters who pursue stolen loved ones or fools' goldmines or sometimes even the dream that sold them down the river years ago. It is a world not so much different from ours as it is both more intense and (slightly) askew than we normally pretend, a world that includes a teacher involved with the pregnant mother of one of his students - an escaped convict with a tendency towards prevarication - an aging, one-armed baseball umpire - a young man and a mercury widow passing time in the Wild Deuce Hotel - a stoned, would-be drummer falling in with bad company - and the narrator of the title story, Morgan Keepnews, perilously adrift in the Reno night... Funny, offbeat, altogether original. We Find Ourselves in Moontown marks the debut of singularly gifted young writer. 'Mr Gummerman's ear for the absurdities of contemporary speech, combined with an eye for the eccentric detail, gives these stories an immediacy and a hipness that counterpoint the sadness and desperation that lurk beneath the giddy surface of his characters' lives' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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- PublisherBantam Doubleday Dell
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0552993883
- ISBN 13 9780552993883
- BindingPaperback
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