Ebook {Epub PDF} National Treasures by Charles McLeod

In National Treasures men and women measure out their lives in tattoos, sharpened fragments of a moose's hoof, autumn leaves, scribbled phone numbers, the red eyes of a heron. This is the America we never see - it's not in the movies, or on the news. National Treasures is about people trying to get by and get on. These can be tough lives of tough love and tough luck but they are full of poignancy and .  · National Treasures Charles McLeod Outpost19 $ p. A collection of twelve short stories, Charles McLeod’s National Treasures is a mourning quilt: each story a patch, holding together an object that provides warmth because it recollects loss. It is also an atlas, the sort that contains loose Polaroid pictures of landmarks seen during the course of one’s lifetime. Fearless and virtuosic, Charles McLeod proves himself in each of these twelve tales to be a master storyteller, and National Treasures is--as its title suggests--jam-packed with riches." -Matthew Vollmer, author of Future Missionaries of America and Inscriptions for Headstones.5/5(5).

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Charles McLeod's NATIONAL TREASURES is a mesmerizing study of America's margins. From back-country radicals to California rent boys to a man who puts his life up on eBay, this debut collection is a coast-to-coast assemblage of the American non-mainstream. National Treasures is about people trying to get by and get on. These can be tough lives of tough love and tough luck but they are full of poignancy and intensity, and Charles McLeod writes about them thrillingly. National Treasures by Charles McLeod. Charles McLeod’s short stories are stuffed with ragbag casts who forever fall, fail, blunder and miss, and wear their open sores like badges of honor. Twelve deliciously seamy tales told in a variety of styles chronicle a succession of botched attempts at living, the damage stemming from either warped decisions or freak contingencies.