Eight Dogs Named Jack: And 14 Other Stories from the Detroit Streets and Michigan Wilderness - Hardcover
In the 60s and 70s, the northeast corner of Detroit was home to so many policemen or cops the area was nicknamed Copper Corner. The community was saturated with first generation-Americans of Italian descent. It's through this setting that the fictional stories within Eight Dogs Named Jack emerge. The stories are a mixture of pulp, noir, humor and drama, set against the backdrop of Detroit s East Side, their characters often roaming to northern Michigan and Canada. Up North, the street smarts the characters possess are tested against the mystical forces present in nature. The stories are crafted from the perspective of Joe Borri, the son of a Detroit cop, who married a girl whose father had a strong dislike for Detroit cops. His life in the two families inspired many of these yarns.
Eight Dogs Named Jack, and Fourteen Other Stories From the Detroit Streets and Michigan Wilderness, is an entertaining collection of tales where characters like Honest John, Tony the Hatchet, Sausages Burmanzini, Hopper, and other street gods call home.
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Joe Borri is an artist and writer of Italian descent who grew up on Detroit s East Side during the 1960s and 70s. As the son of a Detroit policeman and a member of a large extended Italian-American family, he was riveted by stories about life in the city and the real characters who lived there stories that left a deep imprint on his psyche, ultimately inspiring the fictional characters in his first book of short stories, Eight Dogs Named Jack.
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Borri holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Northern Michigan University (1984). He has worked as an illustrator, freelancing for both of Detroit's daily newspapers and various other publications, and currently is employed at a creative studio. He resides in the Detroit area with his wife and their four children.
Joe Borri demonstrates a brilliant sense of both time and place, of the city of Detroit and the deep woods of Michigan. He writes with grace and air and distinction. He makes the whole state seem like an enchanted and magical place. ----PAT CONROY, bestselling author of The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and /i>The Prince of Tides
Joe Borri is a screaming talent coming out of America's heartland. The setting may be Michigan, but Borri's search is the heart of America and he's found some gold and some very dark places. Eight Dogs Named Jack is a riveting collection of rapid fire stories by a writer who knows his characters and makes you sweat along with them. ----JACK EPPS JR., screenwriter, Top Gun and Dick Tracy
Joe Borri's first book, Eight Dogs Named Jack,'' is neatly summed up in the rest of the title: And Fourteen Other Stories from the Detroit Streets and Michigan Wilderness. It's a fun, sometimes startling, sometimes mournful collection sparked by family lore told in his and his wife's enormous Italian clans. He grew up on "Copper Corner,'' a section of Detroit known in the 1960s and 1970s for its concentration of the city's police officers and firefighters, escaping on weekends and holidays to the great "Up North.'' The book reads like a love story to places that many of us recognize. When the main character in the story titled "I'm From Detroit'' utters those words, we've heard the gritty, faintly gleeful inflection. When that same character builds his cabin on a lake, where the women don't go and a man risks a lifetime of good-natured derision for admitting an error that cost him a great day's fish haul, we know somebody who has one of those, too. And no matter what comfort foods say "home'' to you, I must advise laying in a supply of good Italian meats, bread and olives before settling in with the book. It will save you a frantic trip to the deli after you're read a few descriptions of mouthwatering feasts and feel sure you will expire forthwith unless a mortadella sandwich saves you. ----The Ann Arbor News
Joe Borri is a screaming talent coming out of America's heartland. The setting may be Michigan, but Borri's search is the heart of America and he's found some gold and some very dark places. Eight Dogs Named Jack is a riveting collection of rapid fire stories by a writer who knows his characters and makes you sweat along with them. ----JACK EPPS JR., screenwriter, Top Gun and Dick Tracy
Joe Borri's first book, Eight Dogs Named Jack,'' is neatly summed up in the rest of the title: And Fourteen Other Stories from the Detroit Streets and Michigan Wilderness. It's a fun, sometimes startling, sometimes mournful collection sparked by family lore told in his and his wife's enormous Italian clans. He grew up on "Copper Corner,'' a section of Detroit known in the 1960s and 1970s for its concentration of the city's police officers and firefighters, escaping on weekends and holidays to the great "Up North.'' The book reads like a love story to places that many of us recognize. When the main character in the story titled "I'm From Detroit'' utters those words, we've heard the gritty, faintly gleeful inflection. When that same character builds his cabin on a lake, where the women don't go and a man risks a lifetime of good-natured derision for admitting an error that cost him a great day's fish haul, we know somebody who has one of those, too. And no matter what comfort foods say "home'' to you, I must advise laying in a supply of good Italian meats, bread and olives before settling in with the book. It will save you a frantic trip to the deli after you're read a few descriptions of mouthwatering feasts and feel sure you will expire forthwith unless a mortadella sandwich saves you. ----The Ann Arbor News
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- PublisherMomentum Books LLC
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1879094797
- ISBN 13 9781879094796
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
- IllustratorJoe Borri
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