Book description
'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 today. The young men and boys in this
bold, fiery collection do the unthinkable to prove to themselves - to
everyone - that they are strong enough to face the heartbreak in this
world. The war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon of
fathers, leaving their sons to fight among themselves. There is a bear
on the loose, a house with a basement that opens up into a cave and a
nuclear meltdown that renders the Pacific Northwest into a
contemporary Wild West.
'Benjamin Percy moves instinctively toward the molten center of
contemporary writing, the place where genre fiction ... overflows its
boundaries and becomes something dark and grand and percipient. These
stories contain a brutal power and are radiant with pain-only a writer
of surpassing honesty and directness could lead us here.' Peter Straub
Benjamin Percy was raised in the High Desert of Central Oregon. He is
the author of
The Language of Elk
and winner of
The Paris Review
's
Plimpton Prize. His stories have appeared in various publications
including
Best American Short Stories
.He is assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens
Point.
