Working Men

Fourteen stories with as many different voices: Voices of men and women, young and old, blue collar and middle class, salesman and craftsmen, vets and draft dodgers, voices of Native Americans, New England Yankees, southern gentlewomen. Gay and straight, serious and seriocomic, playful and sad. Fourteen stories that reaffirm what critics recognized in Michael Dorris's first novel: that he is a master of the telling detail, the subtle but revealing movement, the music in the silences. He has an uncanny grasp of how we pilfer pop culture to communicate our most intimate feelings and an almost magical ability to get under the skin of his many and disparate characters, bringing them vividly, achingly, truthfully alive.