Tender As Hellfire
By (Author) Joe Meno
Akashic Books,U.S.
Akashic Books,U.S.
17th May 2007
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
220
Width 133mm, Height 190mm
194g
Re-edition of Meno's debut novel, in which he paints a near-fantastical world of trailer park floozies, broken-down '76 Impalas, lost glass eyes and the daily experiences of two boys trying to make sense of their random, sharp lives. Dough and Pill are two brothers living in a trailer park, surrounded by the strange and displaced, who must navigate through a world of constant pain and confusion. The power is in the writing. Mr Meno is a superb craftsman.' - Hubert Selby, Jr'
Joe Meno is the best-selling author of the novels Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender As Hellfire. He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.