Book Summary. A vivid and assured work of fiction from a major new voice following the life of a young man growing up, leaving home, and coming back again, marked by the stark beauty of California's Mojave desert and the various fates of those who leave and those who stay behind. This series of powerful, intertwining stories illuminates Daley Kushner's world - the family, friends and community . CHRIS McCORMICK is the author of the debut story collection Desert Boys, winner of the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Originally from the California side of the Mojave Desert, he earned his MFA at the University of Michigan, /5(30). Desert Boys traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong"-- .
DESERT BOYS. A series of linked stories charts a young man's coming-of-age. Meet the Kushner family and their friends, who live north of Los Angeles in Antelope Valley in a town bordered by the hot Mojave Desert. Some of the 12 linked stories in McCormick's stunningly good debut collection are narrated by Daley Kushner, and all focus on him. Desert Boys. by Chris McCormick. Kush, Watts, and Karinger are resilient twelve-year-olds in the rural Antelope Valley, a desolate, desert-bordered town north of Los Angeles. Their friendship, forged through boyhood adventures and paintball fights in the heat of the Mojave Desert, runs through twelve interlinked stories in Chris McCormick's. The protagonist of Chris McCormick's debut novel-in-stories, Desert Boys (Picador, May ), considers his existence to be "a life leaving a place, only to return to it again and again." This is the space Desert Boys occupies: the tension between leaving and returning, of being both entirely of a place and completely separate from it. We all know the adage, in some form: you can take.
Desert Boys traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong"-- Provided by publisher. Desert Boys by Chris McCormick. Desert Boys. by Chris McCormick. Kush, Watts, and Karinger are resilient twelve-year-olds in the rural Antelope Valley, a desolate, desert-bordered town north of Los Angeles. Their friendship, forged through boyhood adventures and paintball fights in the heat of the Mojave Desert, runs through twelve interlinked stories in Chris McCormick’s debut story collection, Desert Boys. CHRIS McCORMICK is the author of the debut story collection Desert Boys, winner of the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Originally from the California side of the Mojave Desert, he earned his MFA at the University of Michigan, where he was the recipient of two Hopwood Awards.
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