· The Spot by David Means – review. James Lasdun finds blighted beauty in a fine collection of stories. Darkness on the edge of town Cleveland. Photograph: Ken Blaze/Alamy. Darkness on the edge Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Buy The Spot by David Means online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now.5/5(1). · David Means. · Rating details · ratings · 53 reviews. The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. The Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end. The Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the currents of her /5(53).
DAVID MEANS was born and raised in www.doorway.ru second collection of stories, Assorted Fire Events, earned the Los Angles Times Book Prize for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle nomination. His third book, The Secret Goldfish, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Frank O Connor International Short Story www.doorway.ru fourth book, The Spot, was selected as a The Spot is a dusty encampment in Nebraska where a gang of inept radicals plot a revolution. The Spot draws thirteen new stories together into a masterful collection that shows David Means at his finest: at once comically detached and wrenchingly affecting, expansive and concise, wildly inventive and firmly rooted in tradition. The Spot by David Means Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
The stories of David Means orbit around one event — a bank robbery, a crucifixion, a highly improper burial — rather than progressing in linear fashion. But to read “The Spot” in its. Marist High School students protest after peers knelt during a Spanish-language song at homecoming: ‘We feel unsafe’. The Spot. By David Means. Aug. Save this story for later. Save this story for later. The New Yorker, Aug P.
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