Train Wreck Girl

Sean Carswell

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Manic D Press,U.S.
01 May 2008

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

"""Sean Carswell is a wonderful storyteller. . . . Reading his stuff makes you laugh and makes you think.""-Howard Zinn

""[Carswell's writing is] the antidote to what is so boring or safe or wrong with modern book publishing.""-Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned

Train Wreck Girl is the funny and tragic story of one man's quest to figure out what to do with his life now that it's too late for him to die young.

After finding his girlfriend dead on the railroad tracks right after breaking up with her, Danny McGregor-Flagstaff bartender and surfer without an ocean-rides the next bus out of Arizona, fleeing to his Cocoa Beach, Florida, hometown, where a maelstrom of past ghosts await.

Back in Florida, his treacherous friend, Bart, finds Danny a job picking up corpses. Sophie, a former crazy girlfriend who stabbed Danny, wants to rekindle their relationship. Taylor, a twelve-year-old neighborhood girl, only wants Danny to teach her to surf. And then there's Helen, with a face that launched a dozen Greyhounds. Through the chaos, Danny discovers his strengths amid all his weaknesses and is able to move forward while making peace with his past.

Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside, Clamor, and Ink 19, and is a regular contributor to Razorcake. A co-founder of Gorsky Press, he is currently a professor at the University of California."

By: Sean Carswell
Imprint: Manic D Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9781933149219
ISBN 10: 1933149213
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 May 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, pizza delivery boy, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside, READ, Clamor, and Ink 19, and is a regular contributor to Razorcake. A co-founder of Gorsky Press, he is currently a professor at Cal State University Channel Islands.

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"""No matter how I rant and rave, justice will not be done Carswell is a writer who seems set for a long career. I look forward to everything he writes in the future."" -- Gavin Gardner, Arizona Daily Sun"

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