Breaking it Down

Blurbs:

"The jolt of this slim, intense col­lec­tion is brac­ing. Barnes's nar­ra­tive art is as mas­ter­ful as his vision is pro­foundly hon­est and humane. His char­ac­ters, like Robert Frost's, are mainly rural, poor, and farm-bound, and yet their agons are those of clas­si­cal tragedy. Voic­ing these inar­tic­u­late char­ac­ters with image, ges­ture, and nar­ra­tive elo­quence, Barnes opens the core of their imag­ined lives."

—DeWitt Henry, author of The Mar­riage of Anna Maye Potts

"The sto­ries of Rusty Barnes are short, sharp, and shock­ing in their human­ity. His char­ac­ters are like sad love songs, sweet and full of hurt."

—Steve Almond, author of (not that you asked) and The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

"Rusty Barnes is as com­fort­able writ­ing from a child's point of view as an adult's or an old man's or a woman's, young or old. Behind all his char­ac­ters, though, there's a qui­etly humane autho­r­ial pres­ence inter­ested in explor­ing our frail human­ity in a way that reminds of the early work of Ray­mond Carver. Rusty Barnes is his own writer, though, and his flash fic­tion is terrific."

—Edward Falco, author of Wolf Point

Visit Sun­ny­out­side Press to order Break­ing it Down. Or you can use Ama­zon. The offi­cial release date was Novem­ber 8th, 2007. You can read reviews at the Sun­ny­out­side Press site.

If you'd like a signed copy, send me an email ask­ing if I have any books. Some­times I do, some­times I don't. We can work out the pay­ment details over the email.