You and Me and the Devil Makes Three: Esquire's Fiction for Men

✍ Scribed by Gwyn, Aaron; Walter, Jess; Urrea, Luis Alberto

• Book ID: 107818475
• Publisher: Hearst Communications
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 218 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Three new stories for men, by three of the most ambitious and talented names in fiction

A search for an eight-ball of cocaine, turns into a pistol-whipping and executions in Aaron Gwyn's stunning and disquieting "You and Me and the Devil Makes Three." Gwyn, who was born in Tulsa and raised on a cattle ranch, is the author of the novel The World Beneath and the story collection Dog on a Cross, about which the Boston Globe wrote, "In Gwyn's expert hands, nothing, including good or evil, is ever so simple . . . part Flannery O'Connor, part Shirley Jackson, and wholly original--so brilliantly compelling." This new story is no less shocking and revelatory.

In "Young Man Blues," Luis Alberto Urrea introduces us to Joey, the son of a motorcycle gangster tasked with caring for his mother while his dad serves time in Pelican Bay. Packed with rottweilers and German Lugers, roaring car engines and doughnut girls, this story is as riveting and funny as it is affecting. Urrea, a...