Stephen Florida

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"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."--

subjects: Wrestlers,  Level of aspiration,  Loneliness,  Male college athletes,  Fiction,  American literature,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, sports,  Wrestlers -- Fiction,  Male college athletes -- Fiction,  Loneliness -- Fiction,  Level of aspiration -- Fiction,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Psychological,  FICTION / Coming of Age,  FICTION / Sports,  Coming of age