Roughhouse

Praise for Roughhouse:
"My favorite moment was a crafted jewel, as tight and nuanced a 123-word story as you're likely to find anywhere. — Nerve Magazine

"Rutkowski combines carefully measured statements with a profound searching of the cultural landscape, refusing to accept literary prototypes." — American Book Review

"Rutkowski's tale chronicles the confusion and opacity of traumatic childhood as it criticizes the American society that tolerates such inhumanity." — Publisher's Weekly

Description:
A quirky, deadpan look at fetish, violence, and family. Thaddeus Rutkowski's novel in short vignettes, gives a harrowingly deadpan account of the tedium, casual violence, and deviant sex lacing together a surreal, semi-rural childhood with adult urban neurosis. In a spare, flat, and unrelenting prose that has been honed to a point, Rutkowski ferrets out the hard bone of absurdity and humor at the center of emotional displacement.

Details:
$10.95 | 108pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781885030269