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Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black--a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover's memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman's ability to reveal truths about the human experience--about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness--through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. 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Latino\/Latina Studies. HARD TIMES BLUES is Elwin Cotman's second collection of fantasies, following his Carl Brandon Award-nominated debut THE JACK DANIELS SESIONS EP (Six Gallery Press, 2010). These five lyrical and satirical fables look at the lives of the alienated and dispossessed through a fabulist lens. HARD TIMES BLUES contains four short stories--The Elvis Room, in which two young hobos spend a terrifying night in a Raleigh, NC bed and breakfast; Pulp, a prose poem celebrating the magical history of San Francisco; The Revelation of John, a somber apocalypse set along the banks of the Mississippi; and A Song for the Yellow Prince, the story of three musical prodigies and their demons--and one novella, Graveyard Shift, in which a big-box chain puts the reanimated corpses of its employees back to work. Cotman writes American fairy tales for a 21st-century audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElwin Cotman's carefully wrought, gracefully accomplished, and lyrical narratives range in tone and style from picaresque and carnivalesque to elegiac, ironic, and melancholy. Yet, while tonally distinctive and aesthetically vivid, his stories are not so much driven by style or voice, as they are by love in the largest sense. For love does not exclude chaos nor avoid the vicissitudes of history and neither do Cotman's socially engaged, brilliantly crafted stories.--Miranda Mellis","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50460786786577,"sku":"CIN1926616510G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50656506052881,"sku":"CIN1926616510VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1926616510.jpg?v=1750900786"},{"product_id":"jack-daniels-sessions-ep-book-elwin-cotman-9781926616179","title":"The Jack Daniels Sessions Ep","description":"Fiction. African American Studies. Latino\/Latina Studies. Illustrations by Rachel Dorrett. A Washington D.C. punk club gets a visit from very ancient--and dangerous--guests. The mythic and the mundane collide at a general store in the segregated South. A young boy becomes apprentice to the Angel of Death. In Elwin Cotman's Carl Brandon Award-nominated debut collection, the humorous mixes with the historical and the epic mixes with the deeply personal. Cotman combines the language of high fantasy, urban fantasy, black folklore, teen angst, punk rock and horror to create American fairy tales with landscapes all their own.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eElwin Cotman is one of the most original new voices you will encounter--he is a synthesizer of the domestic and the fantastic, of soaring myth and the grittiest realities, of lewd dialect and high lyricism. His stories are profound engagements with suffering of every stripe--they will also make you hoot with laughter. I was amazed by the force of Mr. Cotman's pinwheeling imagination.--Karen Russell","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53614625292561,"sku":"CIN1926616170VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781926616179.jpg?v=1780354839"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-elwin-cotman.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}