{"id":97,"date":"2017-09-12T22:14:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=97"},"modified":"2018-12-13T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:55:36","slug":"dunning-man","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/dunning-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunning Man, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kevin Fortuna<\/h2>\n<p>ISBN 978-1935084-63-1 (cloth)<br \/>\n978-1935084-64-8 (paper)<br \/>\n978-1944884-18-5 (paper)<br \/>\n978-1935084-65-5 (ebook)<\/p>\n<p>140 pages: $14.95 (paper)<\/p>\n<p>October, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Reviews:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/kevin-fortuna\/the-dunning-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advance Review at\u00a0<em>Kirkus<\/em>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parade.condenast.com\/339485\/maggie_murphy\/parade-picks-the-dunning-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Dunning Man<\/em>\u00a0is a Fall Pick at\u00a0<em>Parade<\/em>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askmen.com\/entertainment\/austin\/dunning-man-book-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C.W. Cannon reviews\u00a0<em>The Dunning Man<\/em>\u00a0at Askmen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/culture\/fortuna-the-dunning-man-recommendation\" target=\"_self\">Read\u00a0<em>Esquire<\/em>\u00a0magazine&#8217;s recommendation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/popdust.com\/2014\/10\/07\/kevin-fortuna-dunning-man-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Dunning Man<\/em>\u00a0a pick at\u00a0<em>Popdust<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2014\/10\/book_notes_kevi_20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Dunning Man<\/em>\u00a0playlist; Booknotes at Largehearted Boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyproject.com\/culture\/dunning-man-coming-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dunning Man movie and adaptation reviewed at\u00a0<em>The Liberty Project<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Named by Buzzfeed Books as one of the &#8220;22 Most Exciting Literary Debuts of 2014,&#8221;\u00a0<em><strong>The Dunning Man<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>features anti-heroes who reject society\u2019s rules.\u00a0Characters from all walks of life\u2014a philosophizing<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>hip-hop star,\u00a0a college girl trying to make sense of her infatuation with her wild best friend, a black sheep scion disillusioned by his morally corrupt family and friends<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>and a housewife\u00a0trying to make peace with the past and her wayward husband. They each exist in the here and now, living for what\u2019s possible and what\u2019s left\u2014not what they\u2019ve left behind.\u00a0These are powerful tales of truth seekers imbued with larger-than-life personalities and the all-consuming need to find something worth seeking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stories in\u00a0<strong><em>The Dunning Man<\/em><\/strong>\u2026 are funny, explosive and disarmingly moving\u2026 [they] pulse with life, and the men and women who figure in them are real people, regular people, working people. People like you and me. It\u2019s good to read about them again. \u2014ESQUIRE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mostly Irish American characters in\u00a0<strong><em>The Dunning Man<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0should know better by now. That they don\u2019t (repeating their trespasses again and again) is what makes them so compelling and all too real. \u2014PARADE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Praise for\u00a0<em>The Dunning Man<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevin Fortuna&#8217;s complex and compelling \u00a0characters can&#8217;t be separated from the equally rich family drama and surprising twists of his narratives, always the sign of a real writer. I&#8217;m in awe of this man&#8217;s imagination and this story collection. A wonderful debut.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Joseph Boyden<\/strong>, Giller Prize winning author of\u00a0<strong><em>The Orenda<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>Through Black Spruce<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This muscular collection is inhabited by people whose lives are, as one of them puts it, &#8220;pinwheeling out of control.&#8221; Paralyzed by the past, they can&#8217;t picture a future beyond the next drink. If you met them in a bar, you would move to the other side of the room. But when you meet them in this book, you&#8217;ll find yourself frozen in your seat, riveted by their train-wreck tales of heartbreak and (almost) dashed hopes. Thanks to Kevin Fortuna&#8217;s empathetic and precise portrayals, these stories will linger in your imagination long after the people you meet here have stumbled out into the night.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Miles Harvey<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<strong><em>The Island of Lost Maps<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These stories are by turns wry and funny, harrowing and heartbreaking. Kevin Fortuna writes with startling clarity and insight about success, hope and longing and about people struggling to do the right thing, and sometimes failing. He writes with his heart and his head and with a sheer ballsy velocity you don&#8217;t come across very often.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Kevin Moffett<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<strong><em>Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>The Silent History<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>The Dunning Man<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a collection of relentless and often unsettling stories told with intensity and uncommon skill. With clear, exacting prose Kevin Fortuna presents damaged yet indelible characters grappling with shame, pain, and darkness as they teeter on the brink. One gets the sense that these men and women are only hanging on by a thread, and Fortuna triumphs by refusing to let us look away.<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Skip Horack<\/strong>, Stegner fellow and award-winning author of\u00a0<strong><em>The Southern Cross<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>The Eden Hunter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevin Fortuna\u2019s people are people written about too little \u2013 people on the outskirts, scrapping and scratching, probably not a college degree or reliable job among them. Most often looking for the magic of a big score, as are we all. If they as characters were to be judged by a panel of fictional characters more often seen, the inhabitants of Fortuna\u2019s world might be described by the precious characters out there as bleak and hopeless, dirty and depraved, without prospects, out of place in the world,sad. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t read fiction about precious characters. Fortuna\u2019s people defy life by living, and suck every last breath out of a deflated balloon. They are exhilarating people with fully lived lives, expertly drawn. Fortuna\u2019s people are people you\u2019d want to know, whose lives you may well admire. They may even be you.<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Mark Warren<\/strong>, executive editor of\u00a0<strong><em>Esquire<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Fortuna<br \/>\n9781935084648<br \/>\nI\u2019m in awe of this story collection. 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