If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home
Autor Dave Housleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2015
A KISS cover-band leader pondering a fertility-driven criminal act, a boy watching his hair-metal dad search for love on reality TV, a quiet teenage metalhead stumbling into her own voice while trailing her former roadie father—these are the characters seeking resolution, tempering expectations, and occasionally finding grace and the dignity and strength to go on. Dave Housley's collection examines the quiet desperation and occasional triumphs of growing up and growing older through the prism of music.
Dave Housley's work has appeared in Hobart, Mid-American Review, Nerve, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Barrelhouse Magazine, this is his third book.
Dave Housley's work has appeared in Hobart, Mid-American Review, Nerve, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Barrelhouse Magazine, this is his third book.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781936873661
ISBN-10: 1936873664
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 142 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Dzanc Books
Colecția Dzanc Books
ISBN-10: 1936873664
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 142 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Dzanc Books
Colecția Dzanc Books
Recenzii
Praise for If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home:
"It's tempting to only applaud the alchemy of Dave Housley's third collection of stories, If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home, as on every page he transforms the humblest of materials—kid pop, reality TV, mix tapes, boy bands—into what Seinfeld's Kenny Bania would insist is 'gold, Jerry, gold!' Yet there’s also the magical way his sentences, like the metal gods referenced throughout, speed things up, talk to the crowd, slow the pace to ballad-speed, then get the crowd out of their seats. Best of all, in this painfully funny book of yearning and loss, through characters as real as your reflection and plots with the chain reaction cause and effect of a freeway pileup, Housley utilizes pop culture in the way we all do in our most hidden of hearts: as source of sincere solace, cause of overwhelming ache and, most importantly, reason to believe." — Tom Williams, Author of The Mimic’s Own Voice, Don’t Start Me Talkin’ and Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales
"No one so expertly blends the ability to both skewer and love pop culture in American literature right now as brilliantly as Housley. He's a fucking a national treasure. His stories also obsess about mortality, rightly so, because who wants to die? And I laughed out loud reading this collection, even when his pathetic, dear characters face ridiculous tragedies. Move over David Sedaris and George Saunders, it's time to make room for Dave Housley." — Paula Bomer
"The stories in Dave Housley’s fantastic collection If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home are like Ramones songs: urgent, brazen, and deceptively well-crafted, sizzling with one hooky line after the next. As the Ramones did with, say, 'The Return of Jackie and Judy,' Housley has written rocking stories about rock and roll, about the misfits who stand on the stage and the punks and runts who lurk on the fringes. This book is a testament to Housley’s eye for pop culture and ear for the rock vernacular, and it moves with blistering speed. In the white space between stories, I could almost hear Dee Dee Ramone shouting 1-2-3-4!" — Joe Oestreich, author of Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll
Praise for Ryan Seacrest is Famous:
"Housely’s book contains one of the ultimate pop culture smashups in recent literary history, combining figures such as the titular Ryan Seacrest, Jack Kerouac, Elvis, a frog princess, and a battalion of other pop freaks into a range of literary short stories that are as surprising in execution as they are in pure random energy." —Bookslut (on Ryan Seacrest is Famous)
"Housely’s stories are almost all irresistibly funny." —PopMatters (on Ryan Seacrest is Famous)
"It's tempting to only applaud the alchemy of Dave Housley's third collection of stories, If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home, as on every page he transforms the humblest of materials—kid pop, reality TV, mix tapes, boy bands—into what Seinfeld's Kenny Bania would insist is 'gold, Jerry, gold!' Yet there’s also the magical way his sentences, like the metal gods referenced throughout, speed things up, talk to the crowd, slow the pace to ballad-speed, then get the crowd out of their seats. Best of all, in this painfully funny book of yearning and loss, through characters as real as your reflection and plots with the chain reaction cause and effect of a freeway pileup, Housley utilizes pop culture in the way we all do in our most hidden of hearts: as source of sincere solace, cause of overwhelming ache and, most importantly, reason to believe." — Tom Williams, Author of The Mimic’s Own Voice, Don’t Start Me Talkin’ and Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales
"No one so expertly blends the ability to both skewer and love pop culture in American literature right now as brilliantly as Housley. He's a fucking a national treasure. His stories also obsess about mortality, rightly so, because who wants to die? And I laughed out loud reading this collection, even when his pathetic, dear characters face ridiculous tragedies. Move over David Sedaris and George Saunders, it's time to make room for Dave Housley." — Paula Bomer
"The stories in Dave Housley’s fantastic collection If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home are like Ramones songs: urgent, brazen, and deceptively well-crafted, sizzling with one hooky line after the next. As the Ramones did with, say, 'The Return of Jackie and Judy,' Housley has written rocking stories about rock and roll, about the misfits who stand on the stage and the punks and runts who lurk on the fringes. This book is a testament to Housley’s eye for pop culture and ear for the rock vernacular, and it moves with blistering speed. In the white space between stories, I could almost hear Dee Dee Ramone shouting 1-2-3-4!" — Joe Oestreich, author of Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll
Praise for Ryan Seacrest is Famous:
"Housely’s book contains one of the ultimate pop culture smashups in recent literary history, combining figures such as the titular Ryan Seacrest, Jack Kerouac, Elvis, a frog princess, and a battalion of other pop freaks into a range of literary short stories that are as surprising in execution as they are in pure random energy." —Bookslut (on Ryan Seacrest is Famous)
"Housely’s stories are almost all irresistibly funny." —PopMatters (on Ryan Seacrest is Famous)
Notă biografică
If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home is Dave Housley’s third collection of short fiction. Commercial Fiction was published in 2013, and Ryan Seacrest is Famous was published in 2007. He is one of the co-authors of the book Four Fathers, to which he contributed the novella "Evertyhing Worse, All the Time." His work has appeared in Hobart, Mid-American Review, Nerve, Quarterly West, Wigleaf, Dzanc’s Best of the Web, and elsewhere. He’s one of the founding editors and fiction editors at Barrelhouse Magazine, and one of the co-founders and organizers of the Conversations and Connections writer’s conference. He lives with his wife and son in State College, Pennsylvania, where he geeks out about web sites for Penn State.
Descriere
An examination of the quiet desperation and occasional triumphs of growing up and growing older through the prism of music