Little Reef and Other Stories

by Michael Carroll

Overview

Little Reef and Other Stories announces the arrival of an original voice in literature. From Key West to Maine, Michael Carroll’s debut collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are “B-listers” of a new, ironic, media-soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of gay marriage but still marked by prejudice, religious strictures, and swaths of poverty and hopelessness. Carroll shows us people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can’t envision a future.

Winner, Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters

Finalist, Gay Fiction, Lambda Literary Award

Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Publishing Triangle

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299297435
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	06/16/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	499 KB

About the Author

Michael Carroll is a writer whose work has appeared in Boulevard, Ontario Review, Southwest Review, The Yale Review, Open City, and Animal Shelter. He lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Part One: After Dallas
From the Desk of . . . Hunter B. Gwathmey                         
Referred Pain                         
Barracuda                               
Her Biographers                                 
Little Reef                              
Pascagoula                              
Werewolf                               
 
Part Two: After Memphis
First Responder                                 
Admissions                            
Lack                           
Avenging Angel                                  
Unsticking