Word: rocksalt
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...separate stories. The first is lazy, easy, short--no more than a dozen pages--an ear-perfect comedy routine of the ancient, comfortable insults that men use to get through a day of work. Virgil Caudill, in his early 30s, is laboring his way up to foreman on the Rocksalt, Ky., garbage-collecting crew. He and his pals jaw away at one another about an almighty hangover one of them has shown up with, about a flashy woman in a gaudy car, about a pup one of them is trying to sell: "I ain't sure that...
...Federal Government. By now he is a wholly passive observer, as Offutt's narration heads off at right angles to itself, and the militia crazies prepare to end the tale in righteous fury. The author can't do for the Montana Aryans what he did for the Rocksalt garbage crew, which is to see them sympathetically, from the inside out. No one else has managed this, either. It's a writing job still to be done...
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