Bleed Into Me

Bleed Into Me

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name = Bleed Into Me
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image_caption = First Edition Cover
author = Stephen Graham Jones
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cover_artist = Jacket design by
country = United States
language = English
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publisher = University of Nebraska Press
release_date = September 1, 2005
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media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
pages = 152 pp (first edition, paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0-8032-2605-5(first edition, paperback)
preceded_by =
followed_by = Demon Theory

History

Bleed Into Me is part of Native Storiers: A series of American Narratives.

Plot summary

Jones paints a bleak picture in this collection about Native American men struggling to break the circle of violence, alcoholism and broken families that circumscribes their lives. "Halloween," the opening short short, sets the tone: a brutal father initiates his six-, nine- and 12-year-old sons into manhood by teaching them to smoke cigarettes and drink beer on national holidays. "Bile" revisits an all-too-familiar Native American tragedy, as a young man and his family wait helplessly while his hospitalized father succumbs to the ravages of cirrhosis. Jones concludes the collection of 17 stories with "Discovering America," a terse, furious summary of discrimination against Native Americans narrated by a young drifter who fumes inside as he encounters stereotyping and racism across the country. The constant threat or fact of violence in these stories combined with Jones's idiosyncratic, staccato prose makes for gripping and visceral reading, but these oblique, barely sketched pieces can also be difficult and disorienting. Still, in his evocation of young men grasping for hope while ruled by anger and helplessness

Characters in "Bleed Into Me"

Motifs

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Awards

The novel won the following awards:
* Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award: For Fiction
* Finalist for the Texas Writers League Violet Crown Award

U.S. editions

ee also

*"" (2000)
*"All The Beautiful Sinners" (2003)
*"" (2003)
*"Demon Theory" (2006)
*"The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti" (2008)
*"Ledfeather" (2008)

Notes

References

External links

* [http://www.stephengrahamjones.net Official site of Stephen Graham Jones]
* [http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/interviews/stephengrahamjones Cult interview of Stephen Graham Jones]
* [http://www.welcometothevelvet.com Official online community of Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger and Will Christopher Baer]
* [http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2005/07/01/interview-stephen-graham-jones-author Slushpile interview of Stephen Graham Jones]
* [http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/16/jones.htm "Exodus" short story by Stephen Graham Jones]
* [http://reviews.imdb.com/ReviewsBy?Stephen+Graham+Jones Stephen Graham Jones on IMDB]
* [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/?p=116 The Bat Segundo Show #94] (2007 podcast interview)


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