Eight mile high
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Word Count
53,000 words, Guess
Page Count
212 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26454569M
- Internet Archiveeightmilehigh0000dani
- ISBN-101609174283
- ISBN-101628950277
- ISBN-101628960272
and 10 more
- ISBN-139781609174286
- ISBN-139781628950274
- ISBN-139781628960273
- ISBN-139781611861426
- ISBN-10161186142X
- Library of Congress Control Number2013957630
- OCLC Control Number882233201
- OCLC Control Number876350553
- Better World Books9781609174286
- Better World Books9781611861426
Classifications
- DDC813.6
- LCCPR6073.E47 .D365 2014eb
- LCCPS3554.A5635 A6 2014
and 3 more
- LCCPS3554
- LCCPS3554.A5635 E34 2014
- LCCPS3554.A5635A6 2014
Description
In these linked stories, the constants are the places-from Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar; from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan's, a store that sells misfit clothes. Daniels's characters wander Detroit, a world of concrete, where even a small strip of greenery becomes a hideout for mystery and mayhem. Even when they leave town-to Scout camp, or Washington, DC, or the mythical Up North, they take with them their hardscrabble working-class sensibilities and their determination to do what they must do to get by. With a survival instinct that includes a healthy dose of humor, Daniels's characters navigate work and love, change and loss, the best they can. These characters don't have the luxury of feeling sorry for themselves, even when they stumble. They dust themselves off and head back into the ring with another rope-a-dope wisecrack. These stories seem to suggest that we are always coming of age, becoming, trying to figure out what it means to be an adult in this world, attempting to figure out a way to forgive ourselves for not measuring up to our own expectations of what it means to lead a successful, happy life.
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