TY  - BOOK
AU  - Habash,Gabe
TI  - Stephen Florida: a novel 
SN  - 9781566894647
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Coffee House Press
KW  - Wrestlers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Male college athletes
KW  - Loneliness
KW  - Level of aspiration
N2  - "In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing character study."--Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark."--
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