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Refresh, Refresh: Stories

✍ Percy, Benjamin 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Graywolf Press 🌐 English ⚖ 212 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Percy's second collection (following last year's *The Language of Elk*) traces lives led in rural Oregon's fractured, mostly poor communities. The title story (selected for *The Best American Short Stories 2006*), presents Josh, a young man from small-town Tumalo who watc

Refresh, Refresh - Stories

✍ Percy, Benjamin 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Graywolf press 🌐 English ⚖ 177 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Percy's second collection (following last year's *The Language of Elk*) traces lives led in rural Oregon's fractured, mostly poor communities. The title story (selected for *The Best American Short Stories 2006*), presents Josh, a young man from small-town Tumalo who watc

Refresh, Refresh - Stories

✍ Percy, Benjamin 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 155 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Percy's second collection (following last year's *The Language of Elk*) traces lives led in rural Oregon's fractured, mostly poor communities. The title story (selected for *The Best American Short Stories 2006*), presents Josh, a young man from small-town Tumalo who watc

Refresh, refresh: stories

✍ Benjamin Percy 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2007 🏛 Graywolf press 🌐 English ⚖ 156 KB

"The war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon, of men, of fathers, leaving their sons to fight among themselves. But the boys' bravado fades at home when, alone, they check e-mail again and again for word from their fathers at the front. Often from fractured homes and communities, the yo

Refresh, refresh: stories

✍ Percy, Benjamin 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Jonathan Cape;Graywolf Press 🌐 English ⚖ 160 KB

'The stories in "Refresh, Refresh" are big-hearted and drunk and dangerous, and there's a heightened, unnerving vibe as you travel through Percy's world. You never know where you will end up ...but you can be sure that he'll actually take you somewhere.' - Dan Chaon. Here is the United States of tod

Refresh, Refresh: Stories

✍ Percy, Benjamin 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Graywolf Press 🌐 English ⚖ 157 KB

The war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon, of men—of fathers—leaving their sons to fight among themselves. But the boys’ bravado fades at home when, alone, they check e-mail again and again for word from their fathers at the front. Often from fractured homes and communities, the youn