{"product_id":"glory-days-paperback-softback-9781496201324","title":"Glory Days (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496201324","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMelissa Fraterrigo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496201324\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“A quiet Midwestern ghost story with prose as clear and cold as the Nebraska plains in winter.” -\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A brutally beautiful tale.\"-Patrick T. Reardon, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Astonishing writing about a world that deserves greater attention in contemporary literature.\"-\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A stunning tour de force centered in a small cattle ranching town.\"-Paige Van de Winkle, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003estarred\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"If Willa Cather and Cormac McCarthy had a love child, she would be a writer such as Fraterrigo.\"-Carol Haggas, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Language and imagery of great originality are the most striking aspects of Melissa Fraterrigo's \u003ci\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-CÉline Keating, \u003ci\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Glory Days\u003c\/i\u003e blends the surreal with the supernatural while remaining firmly grounded in the hearty Midwestern earth of its setting.\"-E. CE Miller, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Fraterrigo draws beautiful imagery through deep metaphors. . . . Characters are chained by their past losses, chained by the grief that stiffens them. It's not until new life comes into lnglesside that these chains begin to break.\"-Hadeel Salameh, \u003ci\u003eMid-American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Melissa Fraterrigo's novel-in-stories \u003ci\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/i\u003e is at once ethereal and material. It dabbles in the natural and the supernatural, the spiritual and the corporeal. Set in the fictional town of Ingleside, Nebraska, \u003ci\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/i\u003e pulls us into a struggling Midwestern community and into the psyches of its tragic residents. Haunted by their own pasts and the ghosts of their loved ones, the characters in \u003ci\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/i\u003e are up against the forces of a world determined to overlook them.\"-Sarah L. Bailey, \u003ci\u003eStorySouth\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Melissa Fraterrigo sets her novel \u003ci\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/i\u003e against the backdrop of a key economic struggle in the United States-the death of the family farm and its devastating impact on rural and small-town life.\"-RT Both, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e 2017 Finalist for Literary Fiction, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Best Fiction Books of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of 19 Books You Should Read This September by \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down-on-their-luck ranchers and new money, ghosts and seers, drugs and greed, the haves and the have-nots. Lives ripple through each other to surprising effect, though the connections fluctuate between divisive gulfs and the most intimate closeness. At the center of this novel is the story of Teensy and his daughter, Luann, who face the loss of their land even as they mourn the death of Luann’s mother. On the other end of the spectrum, some townspeople find enormous wealth when developers begin buying up acreages. When Glory Days-an amusement park-is erected, past and present collide, the attachment to the land is fully severed, and the invading culture ushers in even darker times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eGlory Days\u003c\/i\u003e Melissa Fraterrigo combines gritty realism with magical elements to paint an arrestingly stark portrait of the painful transitions of twenty-first-century, small-town America. She interweaves a slate of gripping characters to reveal deeper truths about our times and how the new landscape of one culture can be the ruin of another. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/www.melissafraterrigo.com\/book-groups\/\"' target='\"blank\"'\u003eRead the author's discussion guide.\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e Ruin\u003cbr\u003e Bait\u003cbr\u003e Bastard\u003cbr\u003e Fredonia the Great\u003cbr\u003e Footer\u003cbr\u003e Surrounded\u003cbr\u003e Glory Days\u003cbr\u003e Remains\u003cbr\u003e Skin\u003cbr\u003e Teensy’\u003cbr\u003es Daughter\u003cbr\u003e Downer\u003cbr\u003e First Body, Then Mind\u003cbr\u003e Chains\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599880352024,"sku":"9781496201324","price":14.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/glory-days-paperback-softback-9781496201324","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}