Call It What You Want by Keith Lee Morris (English) Paperback Book

Description: Call It What You Want by Keith Lee Morris "Call It What You Want," a stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood. For all their flaws -- as husbands, as fathers, as friends -- the characters are portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Morris writing has been compared to that of Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo, and "Call It What You Want" balances realism with the surreal, humor with sadness, and explores all the hidden places in between. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Call It What You Want, a stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood. For all their flaws -- as husbands, as fathers, as friends -- the characters are portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Morris writing has been compared to that of Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo, and Call It What You Want balances realism with the surreal, humor with sadness, and explores all the hidden places in between. Author Biography Morris is assistant professor of creative writing at Clemson University. Review "In these 13 stories, protagonists turn the reader into a confidant and introduce plots that believably approximate the unique and fitful path of human thought...Morriss prose is polished to transparency and proves surprisingly flexible in terms of tone...marked by quiet authority and beautifully observed moments." --"Publishers Weekly" "Morris has enough guts to reveal al of his characters insecurities, but enough empathy to never revel in them."--"Time Out Chicago" "With his matter-of-fact prose and bitter humor, the author has spent a decade writing quietly debilitating portraits of the kind of men that grew up poor in small Western towns...and never left. . . . Morris ability to capture these people without irony or pity turns them from caricatures to our own lonesome, troubled neighbors and family members, allowing each a few beautiful moments in otherwise fucked-up lives."--Kelly Clarke, "Willamette Week""Its Morris ability to isolate these kinds of human longings and riff on them, even past morbidity to the point of a black hilarity that makes his fiction so compelling and so real."--Matt Davis, "Portland Mercury""Morris delves into the lives of marginal men with great understanding. Many are treading the edge of self-awareness with an awkwardness that could be grace -- or despair."--"Minneapolis Star Tribune""Morris has an honesty to his writing that comes from homing his craft so that just the essentials are left and a sympathy and humanism to the way he presents his characters."--Kevin Holtsberry, Collected Miscellany"In less capable hands, these stories of hardscrabble lives could become sentimentalized or condescending, but Keith Lee Morris is too talented, too empathetic, to allow that to happen. Though his characters are often "in extremis," their humanity is always fully realized. These characters, and the stories they tell us, haunt the reader long after the last page is turned, as only t Review Quote "In these 13 stories, protagonists turn the reader into a confidant and introduce plots that believably approximate the unique and fitful path of human thought...Morriss prose is polished to transparency and proves surprisingly flexible in terms of tone...marked by quiet authority and beautifully observed moments." --Publishers Weekly "Morris has enough guts to reveal al of his characters insecurities, but enough empathy to never revel in them."--Time Out Chicago "With his matter-of-fact prose and bitter humor, the author has spent a decade writing quietly debilitating portraits of the kind of men that grew up poor in small Western towns...and never left. . . . Morris ability to capture these people without irony or pity turns them from caricatures to our own lonesome, troubled neighbors and family members, allowing each a few beautiful moments in otherwise fucked-up lives."--Kelly Clarke,Willamette Week "Its Morris ability to isolate these kinds of human longings and riff on them, even past morbidity to the point of a black hilarity that makes his fiction so compelling and so real."--Matt Davis,Portland Mercury "Morris has an honesty to his writing that comes from homing his craft so that just the essentials are left and a sympathy and humanism to the way he presents his characters."--Kevin Holtsberry, Collected Miscellany "In less capable hands, these stories of hardscrabble lives could become sentimentalized or condescending, but Keith Lee Morris is too talented, too empathetic, to allow that to happen. Though his characters are oftenin extremis, their humanity is always fully realized. These characters, and the stories they tell us, haunt the reader long after the last page is turned, as only the best stories do." --Ron Rash, author ofSerena "Here are thirteen manic, beautiful stories, each centered around working men, dads, and boys, all of them broken or on the edge of breaking. Each bears witness to fragility, confusion, and beauty. Each is quietly brilliant." --Anthony Doerr, author ofThe Shell CollectorandAbout Grace "A new Keith Morris story collection should be cause for wild and possibly illegal celebrations among those of us freaks who revere the form, and the species at large. Readers should drink to excess and confess to loves best left unnamed. The stories inCall It What You Wantare among the finest being written in America today--precise missiles aimed at the human heart." --Steve Almond, author ofMy Life in Heavy MetalandCandyfreak "They are character-driven explorations of seemingly ordinary people faced with extraordinary circumstances. They are literary stories for a literate reader...The stories inCall It What You Wanttake an unvarnished look at contemporary life and the people who live it. They explore the limitations that keep people, even those that love each other, apart." --Blogcritics.org "With wit and heart, Keith Lee Morriss stories explore the slippery nature of memory, its mutability and incompleteness. His characters are forever filling in the blanks, and where others might have to earn our empathy, they have it straightaway."--Bomblog "Morris is plan-spoken, but his style is laced with a distinct, playful wit and could just as easily draw comparisons to Richard Ford, John Cheever, or Flannery OConnor..."--HTML Giant Details ISBN0982503083 Author Keith Lee Morris Short Title CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT Publisher Tin House Books Language English ISBN-10 0982503083 ISBN-13 9780982503089 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Pages 262 Year 2010 Imprint Tin House Books Place of Publication Portland, OR Country of Publication United States Birth 1963 Audience General/Trade Publication Date 2010-03-23 AU Release Date 2010-03-23 NZ Release Date 2010-03-23 US Release Date 2010-03-23 UK Release Date 2010-03-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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