Recently released "From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet" by Patrick Michael Finn, is a smooth read of his eight well polished short stories: Smokestack Polka, From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet, Shitty Sheila, The Retard of Lard Hill, For the Sake of His Sorrowful Passion, In What She Has Done, and in What she Has Failed to Do, Between Pissworth and Papich, and Where Beautiful Ladies Dance for You. His work explores the world of the middle class and the enironment that becomes a personal element of the story as well. His sharpest and strongest tool is his language that impales and lifts the reader. This book that is definitely worth the read.
"Place is a character in Patrick Michael Finn's fiction. It's almost as if the setting, like the working-class characters who people his stories, has an ethnicity."- Stuart Dybek, author of
I Sailed with Magellan.
I must say, Finn really knows his style. I thoroughly enjoyed ALL of these stories and I recommend ALL to check out this book.
Patrick Finn
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