Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 163149287X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A writing teacher in Texas, his stories and poems have been featured in Mineshaft magazine, the Sun, and the Missouri Review, among others. J. Helton has published numerous books about movies, drugs, people, and dogs. . R
A writing teacher in Texas, his stories and poems have been featured in Mineshaft magazine, the Sun, and the Missouri Review, among others. R. Helton has published numerous books about movies, drugs, people, and dogs. About the Author J.
Raw and moving, Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions captures a microcosm of tattered America that straddles that dangerous line between ruin and redemption.. Along the way, he introduces us to the real people toiling beneath the saccharine veneer of wealth that was the Reagan years: the ambitious and the lazy, the potheads and racistsas well as Vietnam vets too shaken to hold a paintbrush, deadbeat fathers straining to pay child support, and the casual murderer. The unattainable quest for middle-class stability is hauntingly captured in this biting portrayal of forgotten America. Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, J. R. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support himself and a wife. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor. Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s