{"product_id":"acceleration-hours-stories-9781948908627","title":"Acceleration Hours: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, \u003ci\u003eI'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them\u003c\/i\u003e, Jesse Goolsby's \u003ci\u003eAcceleration Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America's twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfather's grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope. \u003ci\u003eAcceleration Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is an intense yet necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAcceleration Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, Jesse Goolsby relies on well-established literary traditions to provide his unique take on important human themes. Through the tradition of wartime literature, he considers death and faith, pain and anguish, and fear and hope. Through the literature of the West, he explores self-sufficiency, individualism, and survival. In his entirely original and intriguing execution, Goolsby manages to explore these often hard and ugly truths through the lives of his fascinating characters, and he does so in a way that is empathetic without being sentimental.\" —Caleb Cage, author of \u003ci\u003eDesert Mementos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAcceleration Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is a live-wire collection full of characters who aren't afraid to bare their souls. With a deft hand, Goolsby carries us through their struggles at home and away, cementing himself as a powerful new talent in the process.\" — Sara Novic, author of \u003ci\u003eGirl at War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jesse Goolsby's stories cut like knives: brutal and bloody, shocking and thrilling, they profane by telling the truth. Goolsby's thoroughly American characters run from war at home to war abroad; they (we?) are realists and pessimists, the disillusioned and a few of the dangerously deluded. \u003ci\u003eAcceleration Hours\u003c\/i\u003e should haunt a nation that has for a generation now sent the least among us around the globe to dominate and humiliate the least among Them—all in service of an empire estranged from its ideals. This collection should wake us up; it has the power to change us.\" —Dan O'Brien, author of \u003ci\u003eWar Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Body of an American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnchor \u0026amp; Knife\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe Drag Our Feet near the Stingrays\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTendons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSometimes Kids Bleed for No Reason\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod's Zipper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBegin with Serenity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Saints' Eve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWaiting for Red Dawn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHindu Kush\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWaist Deep at Hapuna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcceleration Hours\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy I Listen to My Children Breathe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSovereignty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat My Dead Wife Should Know\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBenevolence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIshi Wilderness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot an Emergency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreen Lungs, Purple Hearts, Orange Kidneys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Price of Everything\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Nevada Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043343335767,"sku":"9781948908627","price":20.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781948908627.jpg?v=1750957914","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/acceleration-hours-stories-9781948908627","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}