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008 091028t20102010miu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2009045464
020 $a9780814334775 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0814334776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn461324302
035 $a(OCoLC)461324302
035 $a(NNC)7724817
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050 00 $aPS3554.E44447$bA8 2010
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aDelp, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86014980
245 10 $aAs if we were prey /$cstories by Michael Delp.
260 $aDetroit, Mich. :$bWayne State University Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $avii, 112 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMade in Michigan writers series
505 00 $tCommandos -- $tTraveling Einstein -- $tThe Trees Growing Up Around Us -- $tWe Are Living in the Future -- $tTherapy -- $tPerfect Bass -- $tMystery Park -- $tAs If We Were Prey.
520 1 $a"In As If We Were Prey Michael Delp presents working-class male characters who are tried, tested, and pushed to their limits. Struggling with the demons of childhood and the indignities of adult life, they work dead-end jobs, keep the peace within their families, and attempt to assert themselves against authority whenever they can. While Delp's characters are fathers and sons, students and teachers, they all share a sense of alienation and melancholy that propels them to antics and ill-conceived plans. Although they hope that their rash actions will prove their independence, they generally only reveal their essential vulnerability." "Set mostly in small-town northern Michigan, Delp follows boys and full-grown men who know how to fight, fish, and hunt, but struggle to use those skills to overcome the emptiness and dysfunction of their day-to-day lives. A boy takes revenge on the neighborhood bully and watches his downfall with unexpected emotion, a man visits a tourist attraction with a caged bear and empathizes with the creature, a teacher quits his job and hits the road as a one-man trivia quiz show, a father shares his childhood stories of defeat with his young daughter and inspires her to settle a score, two men catch a giant bass and keep it in the bathtub all winter to fatten it to prize-winning size, and a Vietnam vet and shop teacher switches into combat mode to teach his students a chilling lesson."--BOOK JACKET.
830 0 $aMade in Michigan writers series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005089101
852 0 $bglx$hPS3554.E44447$iA8 2010