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Small Town Odds: A Novel by Headley, Jason
by Headley, Jason | HC | VeryGood
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
ISBN-10
0811845362
ISBN-13
9780811845366
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30765681
Product Key Features
Book Title
Small Town Odds
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-012035
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Headley''s offbeat, bighearted first novel paints a delightful portrait of smalltown life, as experienced by 24-year-old Eric Mercer, a sardonically charming underachiever. Eric lives and works in tiny Pinely, W.Va., where drama means betting on the annual (and futile) efforts of the high school football team to beat archrival Cedarsville. The bright spot in Mercer''s life is his precocious five-year-old daughter, Tess, a happy accident from a tryst with the beautiful Gina Stevens, whom Mercer and his pals pined for throughout adolescence. Headley intercuts Mercer''s present-day activities-drinking and fighting in bars, male-bonding with dim-bulb best friend Deke, handymanning at the funeral home-with his teenage antics of drinking in the woods, male-bonding with Deke and loving his girl, Jill Dupree. Bringing past and present together is the death of Jill''s father, which forces Mercer to finally face his beloved Jill, back in town after six years, and come to terms with Gina, whose one night of companionship he paid for in the loss of both his college dreams and Jill''s love. Headley makes up for the slight plot with his winning protagonist, whose gift for avoidance is as profound as his flair for understated humor. "Slacker grows up" is a familiar trope, but Headley''s winning wit and his compassionate, delightful prose mark him as a bright new talent. -- Publishers Weekly "Headley has been compared with Richard Russo, and the reasons are evident....A graceful entrance into the world of fiction." -- Library Journal " Small Town Odds is a rich and wonderful novel about the most universal of human concerns-how we pursue a sense of self in a world that is beyond our control. This is a brilliant debut by an important young writer." -- Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Pinely, West Virginia has one stop light. It also has one funeral home, a bar, a jail, two really pretty women, and the young male hero who spends and misspends his time among all of them. Small Town Odds is a lively, wry and moving novel that puts the author on the shelf with Tony Earley and Kent Haruf." -- John Casey, author of the National Book Award-winning novel, Spartina "The sweep of folly through a young man''s life is a classic American theme, and Small Town Odds enriches that literary tradition with unexpected tenderness and decency. Jason Headley is a truly gifted storyteller." -- Bob Shacochis, author of the National Book Award-winning collection, Easy in the Islands "Wrought with strikingly sublime humor and a decidedly quirky cast of characters, Headley''s first novel details a week in the life of a young man as he struggles for redemption in a stifling West Virginia way station. Small Town Odds is a deftly lyrical debut that introduces us to a distinctively fresh voice in contemporary fiction." -- Barnes & Noble Staff Pick: Top 50 Fiction Books of 2004 Headley''s offbeat, bighearted first novel paints a delightful portrait of smalltown life, as experienced by 24-year-old Eric Mercer, a sardonically charming underachiever. Eric lives and works in tiny Pinely, W.Va., where drama means betting on the annual (and futile) efforts of the high school football team to beat archrival Cedarsville. The bright spot in Mercer''s life is his precocious five-year-old daughter, Tess, a happy accident from a tryst with the beautiful Gina Stevens, whom Mercer and his pals pined for throughout adolescence. Headley intercuts Mercer''s present-day activities-drinking and fighting in bars, male-bonding with dim-bulb best friend Deke, handymanning at the funeral home-with his teenage antics of drinking in the woods, male-bonding with Deke and loving his girl, Jill Dupree. Bringing past and present together is the death of Jill''s father, which forces Mercer to finally face his beloved Jill, back in town after s
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
Writing with an acute sense of place and character reminiscent of Richard Russo, Jason Headley's first novel tells the hilarious and poignant story of Eric Mercer and Pinely, West Virginia., Writing with an acute sense of place and character reminiscent of Richard Russo, Jason Headley's first novel tells the hilarious and poignant story of Eric Mercer and Pinely, West Virginia. Enromously likeable and a habitual screw-up, Eric has settled into a sometimes raucous, underachieving life in his one-stoplight hometowna life cobbled together from his part-time activities as bartender at the American Legion, assistant mortician, and father to his beloved 5-year-old daughter, Tess. Tess seems to be the main reason smart, talented, twenty-four-year-old Eric is staying in town, though her mom, a centerfold-quality beauty, would have it otherwise. When Jill, the lost love of his life, returns to Pinely in the same week that the town goes nuts in preparation for the high school football team's Big Game, life unexpectedly shifts into high gear, and Eric must blunder his way toward enlightenmentfast. Authentic, irresistible, and refreshingly unpredictable, Small Town Odds is the debut of a graceful and gifted writer. Barnes & Noble Best of 2004: Staff Picks
LC Classification Number
PS3608.E23S63 2004
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