That's True Of Everybody

The proprietor of a bowling alley whose artist daughter paints only phalluses. A ninth-grade girl who marries in haste only to be faced with her husband's impotence. A libidinous poet who learns the meaning of harassment. The life and loves of a professional lawn-mower. These are just a few of the distinctive stories that make up Mark Winegardner's remarkable debut short-story collection.
Winegardner, whose rich and epic novel Crooked River Burning gave the much-maligned city of Cleveland a fresh and vibrant aspect, now returns to the Midwest that he knows so intimately and casts a piercingly compassionate eye on its denizens. The result is a kaleidoscopic picture of a people who are arrogant and humble, faithful and disloyal, driven and floundering-a people who are finally, America itself.
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PRAISE FOR CROOKED RIVER BURNING

"[Winegardner's] main achievement is a narrative voice . . . one that's distinctly his own."--Los Angeles Times

"An ambitious novel . . . Winegardner infuses his tale with an invigorating energy."--Publishers Weekly (starred)

"This monumental tale of events great and small . . . should not be missed."--Library Journal (starred)