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The Devil's Tub

Collected Stories

by Edward Hoagland
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Edward Hoagland, best known for his essays, is also an extraordinary writer as fiction, as readers of his stories “The Final Fate of Alligators" and “Kwan's Coney Island" can attest. First published in periodicals such as The Paris Review, Esquire, The New Yorker, The American Review, and Saul Bellow's famous literary magazine, The Nobel Savage, Hoagland's stories amazed readers with their precise language and finely etched characters. He has been widely anthologized, including in Best American Short Stories. Assembled here are stories new and old, spanning from 1960 to today.
Meet the death-defying motorcycle trick riders in the carnival's Devil's Tub, a man who keeps an alligator in his bathtub, a Chinese launder in Coney Island in search of love, a frontiersman who saves himself from a mauling grizzly bear by hiding in a beaver dam, three men from a circus looking for trouble at a rodeo, a washed out boxer trying to to hang onto his career, and dozens of others rich characters. From the cramped and gritty streets of New York City to the wide open spaces of the Old West, Hoagland's characters pine, ache, create, observe, love, learn, and live in such precisely rendered stories that we are transported into each of their peculiar worlds.
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    June 7, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781628724622

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      November 15, 2014
      Earthy and cerebral, curious and empathic toward animals as well as human beings, Hoagland mines deep veins of experience in his essays and fiction, from his time with the circus to his extensive travels and struggles with physical ailments. His last book was the lacerating novel Children Are Diamonds (2013). In this collection, readers will discover the intensity and wisdom of Hoagland's muscular short stories, which span 50 years. These are visceral tales of men living bruising lives of toil and risk, hardscrabble freedom and precarious love. Hoagland portrays carnies spoiling for a fight, hobbled rodeo cowboys, a former sailor living in a New York apartment with an alligator, a Vermont auctioneer with suspect sidelines, and, in the title story, a philosophical motorcycle daredevil. Each masterful story whips up a seething storm of consciousness as memories collide with current conundrums and Hoagland's battered characters try to figure out their next move. Flush with life, these knowing and passionate tales are the work of a tremendous writer whose literary power flows from the hot springs that fuel America's greatest fiction.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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