Dell Prentice writes the things men do not say — divorce, drink, blue-collar dignity — in short declaratives where the white space does the wounding. Nothing is explained; the weather is plain and the endings stop rather than conclude. He has spent a long life learning how little a sentence needs.
Short declaratives. Working-class American vernacular. Almost nothing is explained; the white space does the wounding. Dialogue clipped, weather plain, endings that stop rather than conclude.
Preoccupations
divorce · alcohol · blue-collar dignity · the things men do not say
In conversation with
Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, Tobias Wolff
A line
"He came home and the dog was gone and that was the start of it."
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