John McNally, Author Subpress $11 (78p) ISBN 978-1-930068-06-3
""My hippy branch of talk to cut through the stutter/ is clutter to music but beauty to the human me./ Why whisper when the speak of heart too easy/ yields reason, longevity, happiness no tears."" This deliciously torqued first full-length...
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John McNally, Author, John McNally, Editor University of Iowa Press $17 (224p) ISBN 978-0-87745-727-5
Midwestern pot smokers, petty thieves and bullies-in-training populate this debut collection, but that doesn't prevent McNally from transforming chronicles of their everyday troubles into 11 meaningful, sharply etched stories. Many of the characters
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John McNally, Author . Free Press $24 (287p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5555-4
Following a collection of short stories (Troublemakers
), this enjoyable first novel is a nostalgic trip back to late 1970s suburban Chicago and the foibles of eighth-grader Hank and his twice left-back delinquent pal, Ralph. The novel unfolds in a...
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John McNally, Author . Free Press $24 (266p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5626-1
McNally (The Book of Ralph
) takes a satiric, paranoid look at the dastardly machinations behind standardized testing. Charlie Wolf, 23, opts to stay in Iowa City after finishing graduate film school and secures for himself and his girlfriend, Petra
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John McNally, Author . Counterpoint $15.95 (307p) ISBN 978-1-58243-560-2
Twelve years after graduating from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Jack Sheahan, the protagonist of McNally’s witty third novel, suffers from chronic self-doubt and a decade-long case of writer’s block. He keeps an...
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