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- Book Title
- Quality Snacks
- Publication Name
- Quality Snacks
- Title
- Quality Snacks
- EAN
- 9780814340158
- ISBN
- 9780814340158
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2014
- Release Date
- 30/04/2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Series
- Made in Michigan Writers Series
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 5in
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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In a wide range of forms and tones, the fifteen stories in Andy Mozina's new collection, Quality Snacks, center on high-stakes performances by characters trying to gratify both deep and superficial needs, often with unexpected consequences. Driven by strange ambitions, bungled love, and a taste for-or abject fear of-physical danger, the collection's characters enact the paradox in the concept of a quality snack: the dream of transmuting the mundane into something extraordinary. Two teenage boys play chicken on a Milwaukee freeway. A man experiencing a career crisis watches a seventy-four-year-old great grandmother perform an aerial acrobatics routine at the top of a swaying 110-foot pole. Desperate to find a full-time job, a pizza delivery man is fooled into a humiliating sexual demonstration by a couple at a Midway Motor Lodge. A troubled young man tries to end his father's verbal harassment by successfully hunting a polar bear. After an elf civil war destroys his Christmas operation, Santa Claus reinvents himself as a one-man baseball team and ends up desperate to win a single game. And in the title story, a flavor engineer at Frito-Lay tries to win his boss's heart with a new strategy for Doritos that aims to reposition the brand from snack food to main course. While some stories embrace pathos and some are humorous and some are realistic and some contain surreal elements, all of the stories in Quality Snacks share striking insight and a cast of compelling, well-conceived characters. This collection, in an earlier form, has been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award, the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the Elixir Press Fiction Award, and the Autumn House Fiction Contest, and a semi-finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize. Readers of fiction will be satisfied by the variety of fare offered by Quality Snacks .
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Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
0814340156
ISBN-13
9780814340158
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170190508
Product Key Features
Book Title
Quality Snacks
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3613.O96a6 2014
Reviews
Author Andy Mozina's latest collection of fifteen short stories, Quality Snacks, greets readers with a variety of well-written fare, a little something for every palate. These character-driven stories examine topics such as office power dynamics, irrational animal fears, elf genocide at the North Pole, Dorito and porn addiction, nonsexual affairs, and how to be a 'woman of peace.' But this is just a sampling, a taste-testing stroll through the Costco warehouse of Mozina's Quality Snacks. . . Andy Mozina is a talented individual. His newly minted collection of quality shorts leaves readers with plenty of food for thought..., Andy Mozina's Quality Snacks is a collection of sad Rust Belt love songs. He maps a territory of dispirited office workers and aging small town beauties, all of them already beaten, always on the verge of worse. Echoes of Vonnegut, Borges, Cheever, and Saunders converge in these strip mall parking lots, in these dimly lit motels. Mozina asserts himself here as the fabulist poet of the Great Lakes working stiff., Andy Mozina's dark comic midwestern genius thrills and troubles me, and I want more of it. Each of these stories is a philosophical puzzle, and each is a strange adventure to the foreign land that is another person's mind. Through his plainspoken narrators, Mozina takes us farther than we meant to go--to the edge of the Arctic Ocean, to Elvis's bedroom, to the terrible confusion at the heart of every human relationship. I love this collection., Andy Mozina is a magician. I can't think of a species of masculine folly--whether guilty rebellion, or panicky narcissism, or dependency disguised as tyranny, or anomie passing as glib enthusiasm for new lines of an employer's tortilla chips--whose vocabulary and broken inner self Andy Mozina has not deftly conjured up for this collection. And he is as funny as he is wise., It's a powerful effect, to wedge the sad into the funny, the strange into the normal in order to split a character (or world) apart, and it's one that I'm fond of. The oddness and commitment to the internal logic of these stories cements it: Mozina's creating his own worlds, in the same circles, maybe, as George Saunders' or Brock Clarke's, but distinctly his own., This collection of 15 unusually well-crafted pieces of short fiction will be savored in its variety of elements - point of view, voice, humor - and Mozina's instinct for the apt phrase. Characters are memorable and touching by their thoughts and actions as well as by their humanity. . . These stories, largely set in the Midwest, will appeal to. . . anyone who appreciates good writing., Mr. Mozina's work is first rate and fans of Carver, Saunders and a certain kind of Marquez-esque fabulist literature will find much to like in this collection., Mozina's characters come to wry, melancholy insights that don't help them improve their lives, but endear them to readers . . . Quality Snacks is too funny to call an elegy for the Rust Belt, but Midwesterners will have no problem recognizing the architecture of sagging gutters, decaying strip malls and part-time pizza delivery jobs of the downwardly mobile, who can't stop scrabbling for a toehold on the debris-strewn slopes of their lives. After all, as these stories show, things could always get worse., Printers Row recently caught up with Mozina, 52, whose previous books include two short story collections, The Women Were Leaving the Men (2007) and Quality Snacks (2014), both published by Wayne State University Press.
Copyright Date
2014
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Made In Michigan Writers Ser.
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