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Second Acts in American Lives

Second Acts in American Lives

Jacob Heustis
4.8/5 ( ratings)
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For more information, visit Alternating Current: tinyurl.com/secondacts.

Equal parts prose-poems, flash stories, riddles, and mythological prologues to the lives of spent Americans—struggling, murderous, born again, drug-addled, sexual, hopeful, despairing, soaring—this collection stands on the edge of genre definition and questions what it means to be at the cusp of living. Punchlines, plays on words, dad puns, and yo’ mama jokes straddle the saddle with deep metaphorical lessons on society today, making companions of dark humor and serious wit. A séance of poetics and politics, this collection of glimpses into the disheveled and desperate, the cerebral and celebrated, the gangly and glorious, conjures what it is to be American in a society as stupid as it is terrifying.

Illustrated by Jacob Heustis.

“Short fiction from two masters of the form.”
—NERVE

“Ranging from short to super-duper short, the prose-poetic stories in Ryan Ridge’s and Mel Bosworth’s Second Acts in American Lives zig and zag, fake and fade, keeping the reader guessing on every page, and the illustrations by Jacob Heustis are every bit as funny and surprising as the words they accompany. It’s a pinball machine of a book, full of bounce and light and crazy ricochets: sentences start, you don’t know where they’ll end up, and this dynamic unpredictability is what gives this collection its life and its victory.”
—Kathleen Rooney, author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Language
English
Pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alternating Current Press
Release
March 06, 2018
ISBN
1946580031
ISBN 13
9781946580030

Second Acts in American Lives

Jacob Heustis
4.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
For more information, visit Alternating Current: tinyurl.com/secondacts.

Equal parts prose-poems, flash stories, riddles, and mythological prologues to the lives of spent Americans—struggling, murderous, born again, drug-addled, sexual, hopeful, despairing, soaring—this collection stands on the edge of genre definition and questions what it means to be at the cusp of living. Punchlines, plays on words, dad puns, and yo’ mama jokes straddle the saddle with deep metaphorical lessons on society today, making companions of dark humor and serious wit. A séance of poetics and politics, this collection of glimpses into the disheveled and desperate, the cerebral and celebrated, the gangly and glorious, conjures what it is to be American in a society as stupid as it is terrifying.

Illustrated by Jacob Heustis.

“Short fiction from two masters of the form.”
—NERVE

“Ranging from short to super-duper short, the prose-poetic stories in Ryan Ridge’s and Mel Bosworth’s Second Acts in American Lives zig and zag, fake and fade, keeping the reader guessing on every page, and the illustrations by Jacob Heustis are every bit as funny and surprising as the words they accompany. It’s a pinball machine of a book, full of bounce and light and crazy ricochets: sentences start, you don’t know where they’ll end up, and this dynamic unpredictability is what gives this collection its life and its victory.”
—Kathleen Rooney, author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Language
English
Pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alternating Current Press
Release
March 06, 2018
ISBN
1946580031
ISBN 13
9781946580030

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