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They call him The Kid. He's a killer, a dark legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, "a child who terrifies adults." They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time.Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn't exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene.
But he is real. He's a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an appetite for violence. He is a cipher, a projection of the dreams and nightmares of people ignored by the economic boom...and a modern-day outlaw in search of an ordinary life. Love brings him the chance at a new life in the form of Vanjii, a beautiful, damaged woman. But try as he might to abandon the past, his past won't abandon him. The Kid fights back in the only way he knows--and sets in motion a tragic sequence of events that lead him to an explosive conclusion shocking in its brutality and tenderness.
But he is real. He's a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an appetite for violence. He is a cipher, a projection of the dreams and nightmares of people ignored by the economic boom...and a modern-day outlaw in search of an ordinary life. Love brings him the chance at a new life in the form of Vanjii, a beautiful, damaged woman. But try as he might to abandon the past, his past won't abandon him. The Kid fights back in the only way he knows--and sets in motion a tragic sequence of events that lead him to an explosive conclusion shocking in its brutality and tenderness.
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Barry Graham is what Foucault called an Author Function.
More than a dozen books.
Published in magazines including Harper's, Salon, Narratively, PANK, Northwords Now, Flaunt, Parabola, The Big Click and Nerve.
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More than a dozen books.
Published in magazines including Harper's, Salon, Narratively, PANK, Northwords Now, Flaunt, Parabola, The Big Click and Nerve.
"It's a stripped-down outlaw ballad delivered in terse, but lyrical passages, and though The Kid doesn't live to a ripe old age, I'm terribly impressed that the story of his life fits so well into the compact boundary of just over a hundred pages."--Jedidiah Ayres, author of Peckerwood
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