Black Gum, by J David Osborne
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Black Gum, by J David Osborne
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After his life spirals out of control, a young man navigates a world of juggalos, transients, and petty criminals with Shane, an enigmatic small-time drug dealer with a penchant for body modification.
Black Gum, by J David Osborne- Amazon Sales Rank: #938302 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .30" w x 5.00" l, .30 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 120 pages
From the Inside Flap "I read Osborne's LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY last year and thought it was great. This is better than that. All those drunk, unemployed, disillusioned parents in Raymond Carver stories? Their kids are in BLACK GUM and they are drunk and high and listening to Insane Clown Posse. They work on cars or work at the mall or can't find work. They love their moms the best they can. They sometimes have guns. They have sex to feel good and they have sex to feel bad. They love to punch each other because it's the best answer to most of the questions in their lives. In the end, somehow, BLACK GUM is a story about wanting to build a better life, even if you have to use degradation as bricks. There's a great line in here that says, "Every young man fights the truth that he's half his father." That's one of the things I learned from this book. Another was to bring my mom a Reese's peanut butter cup once in a while. Read the book to learn the rest. BLACK GUM is a little Bible and, like the Bible, filled with prophecy and terrible truths."--Dave Newman, author of PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ANYONE TONIGHT"I loved BLACK GUM. Truly, truly loved it...it's a great-ass book." --Scott McClanahan, author of CRAPALACHIA and HILL WILLIAM"Perhaps Osborne's best book yet. Funny, sad and beautiful--a JESUS' SON for these times." --Barry Graham, author of THE BOOK OF MAN (an American Library Association "Best Book of the Year")
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Drugs, Beauty, Sadness, Humor By Scott Adlerberg A chaotic stretch in the life of a guy in Oklahoma. Our narrator is no more than 24 or 25 years old, and his marriage, his entire existence, has hit a rough patch. To put it mildly. What follows are a series of short scenes during the difficult several months he tries to keep his mind, body and soul together. None of that is easy to accomplish, though, when night and day you're doing a variety of intoxicants and hanging with wild men and small time, less than brilliant drug dealers. Black Gum is by turns sad, funny, harsh, and tender. The writing throughout is wonderfully evocative and controlled. Though full of feeling, it is a work of striking understatement, making its emotional resonance that much stronger. Oklahoma comes across as a place both familiar and strange, as if seen at the tail end of a long hallucinatory drug binge. People are contradictory and unpredictable, as real people are, and the crime part of the plot resolves in a way you don't quite expect. It's a quick and invigorating read that will stay with you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Found myself wanting more By sortilegus In a style reminiscent of Raymond Carver’s subtext-heavy minimalism, Black Gum is pretty light on plot, but chock-full of immaculate writing. J David Osborne’s words feel sculpted on the page, not a single phrase out of place. The main character’s inner life is pretty much nonexistent, but that’s intentional. There’s some iceberg theory at work here. The character knows that his world has fallen apart, that he is making terrible choices, and yet he has no interest in correcting course. While he seems awe-struck by his own degradation, worrying primarily about how to pay rent, readers are left to make the larger emotional connections.Despite all of this, I found myself wishing for something more. Osborne’s talent as a writer is so apparent, but feels underutilized. I couldn’t help feeling that I’ve read this story before. “Depressed guy is depressed,” a cynical reader might say. “Numb guy is bored, makes bad choices.” If you aren’t taken in by the style, you probably won’t be taken in at all. Genius shines through during the final pages, when Osborne embraces some weird imagery, laying out hallucinatory metaphors that are so out there I wasn’t sure of their meaning (but I was okay with it). With this finale, I felt I had been shown something new and unique, something only this writer could show. It packed an odd emotional punch, bringing home the lowness of this world while simultaneously losing me in the strangeness. It is bold, provocative, and poignant. I only wish there was more to connect with in this way throughout.Still, this is a writer worth watching, and a book worth reading.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Uniquely biazrre and trippy By Mets6986 Broken River Books is one of the most adventurous publishing houses in business today, and J. David Osborne doesn't just run the show -- he's part of it. This was the first work of his I've read, and it will stay with me because of its bizarre and trippy images, as well as its unique style. This is quite a short book and it consists of a string of vignettes, many of which could stand as self-contained flash pieces. The main emotional chord is a sense of being disconnected. The fringes of society that Osborne depicts are something that Harry Crews would have loved.
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