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Books by Jim Ray Daniels
  | | Eight Mile High(1st Edition) by Jim Ray Daniels Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by Michigan State University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61186-142-6, ISBN: 1-61186-142-X "In these linked stories, the constants are the placesfrom Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar; from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan’s, a store that sells misfit clothes. Daniels’s characters wander Detroit, a world of concrete, where even a small strip of greenery becomes a hideout for mystery and mayhem. Even when they leave townto Scout camp, or Washington, DC, or the mythica ..." |
 | | Mr. Pleasant(1st Edition) by Jim Ray Daniels Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2007 by Michigan State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87013-806-5, ISBN: 0-87013-806-5 "In this collection of powerful and deeply humane short stories, Jim Ray Daniels' characters struggle to find themselves in a society that has cast them aside. As they make their way under the permanently gray skies of Michigan's lower peninsula, they try to come to terms with their lives, searching for a pleasant place, for someone who will love them or will simply make them feel safe. These are characters who have to come to terms ..." |
 | | Detroit Tales(1st Edition) (Michigan & the Great Lakes) by Jim Ray Daniels Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2003 by Michigan State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87013-662-7, ISBN: 0-87013-662-3 " The stories in Detroit Tales are tales about urban, working-class America. People struggle both to remain in the city and to escape the city. The three central motifs of this collection are the city, the workplace, and the automobile. In their cars, people negotiate the territory between work and home. Conflicts arise in the characters’ impulses to veer off their well-worn paths. What can they do? Where can they go? What forces pul ..." |
 | | The Perp Walk(1st Edition) by Jim Ray Daniels Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Michigan State University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61186-316-1, ISBN: 1-61186-316-3 "In The Perp Walk, his latest collection of linked stories, Daniels maps out the emotional capitals and potholes of coming of age in a blue-collar town in the Great Lakes State, though it could be any state where people work hard, play hard, and aren’t paid nearly enough for their efforts. Alternating flash fiction pieces with longer narratives, Daniels captures both the shooting stars and the constellations that build into earned insigh ..." |
 | | Trigger Man More Tales of the Motor City by Jim Ray Daniels Paperback, 145 Pages, Published 2011 by Michigan State University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61186-018-4, ISBN: 1-61186-018-0 "Trigger Man is a superb collection of stories capturing the gritty spirit of Detroit and the sometimes grim circumstances of the characters shaped by its industry and economics. Grounded on the bleak streets of the Motor City, these stories also explore the mythical “Up North,” the idealized country of many Detroit workers’ fantasy — an escape from the concrete and metal reality of their daily lives. Daniels’ characters are resilient an ..." |
 | | No Pets(1st Edition) by Jim Ray Daniels Paperback, 133 Pages, Published 1999 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-0-933087-54-5, ISBN: 0-933087-54-3 "Fiction. Short Stories. Jim Daniels' NO PETS brings us sad, acutely-observed stories of people who know in their bones that the American Dream does not apply to them -- John Sayles. With swift, deft strokes, in spare, precise language, Jim Daniels can break your heart. He captures the tragic -- maybe tragi-comic -- lives of people whom I long to reach out to, in their blue collar cities, and pluck them from the paths they seem destined ..." |
 | | On the Clock Contemporary Short Stories of Work by Jeff Vande Zande, Josh Maday, Lolita Hernandez, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jim Ray Daniels, Michael Zadoorian, Daniel Orozco, Billie Louise Jones, Matthew Salesses, Bottom Dog Press Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2010 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933964-38-6, ISBN: 1-933964-38-3 "Fiction. A collection of stories from our top writers which confronts and reveals our working life today, ON THE CLOCK's authors include: Jim Daniels, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Daniel Orozco, Kennebrew Surant, Rick Attig, Lolita Hernandez, Michael Martone, Matthew Salesses, Matt Bell, M. Kaat Toy, Sean Lovelace, Billie Louise Jones, Lita Kurth, Anne Shewring, Dustin Hoffman, Tania Hershman, Nick Kocz, Michael Zadoorian, Steve Himmer, Pete And ..." |
 | | Our Working Lives(1st Edition) Short Stories of People and Work by Jim Ray Daniels, Stuart Dybek, Nancy Zafris, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Larry Smith, Andy Nelson Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2000 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-0-933087-63-7, ISBN: 0-933087-63-2 "Fiction. In this anthology, through a variety of voices and venues, work and the workplace provide setting, metaphor, and meaning -- Bonnie Jo Campbell. In most ways this...is a perfect model of the American short story of work: intimate with the working experience, its work and culture, giving respect and space for the worker to speak his/her grief and joy within a collective sensibility, creating a form that exposes the effects of opp ..." |
 | | Brown Ale(1st Edition) History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style Series, 14) by Jim Parker, Ray Daniels Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1998 by Brewers Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-937381-60-1, ISBN: 0-937381-60-8 "Brown ale is the chameleon of all beers. Ray Daniels and Jim Parker harness the mystery of this beer style and divulge some of its secrets. They also reveal how Samuel Smith's and Scottish and Newcastle breweries craft their world-renown ale and why chefs use brown ale more than any other beer style." |
 | | The Luck of the Fall Daniels, Jim Ray by Jim Ray Daniels Paperback, Published 2023 by Michigan St Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-61186-467-0, ISBN: 1-61186-467-4 ""These short stories take place along Eight Mile Road on the edge of Detroit; the characters in them take consolation in their lack of prizes, in the clarity of their failures, while approaching the future with gallows humor and jaded ..." |
 | | The Perp Walk by Jim Ray Daniels 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Msu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62895-361-9, ISBN: 1-62895-361-6 "... Bohinski—we learned her first name was Brandi, and we didn't know anyone who had an i in place of the standard y—in retrospect, probably had an eating disorder. Her thinness—severe, alarming, alluring— made her look younger, and she was ..." |
 | | Eight Mile High by Jim Ray Daniels 176 Pages, Published 2014 by Msu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62895-027-4, ISBN: 1-62895-027-7 "Mrs. Wacko, Old Lady Wakowski, Witch Wakowski—from her corner house, she operated like a toll keeper, monitoring activity, passing along gossip like turnpike tickets. Thekidson the block fearedher since she'd gotten Kevin Naha busted for ..." |
 | | Trigger Man More Tales of the Motor City by Jim Ray Daniels 154 Pages, Published 2011 by Msu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60917-224-4, ISBN: 1-60917-224-8 "Over the years, when Ronnie or Carol needed to talk, they'd sit on the Porters' curb and wait until the other showed up to sit and talk on the edge of the ... Maybe he wants to relive the glory of kicking the ass of Bad-Boy Ronnie Brown.” Ronnie ..." |
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