{"product_id":"the-standard-grand-hardcover","title":"The Standard Grand - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJay Baron Nicorvo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**One of the \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRail\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2017**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nicorvo is a bracingly original writer and a joy to read.\" --Dennis Lehane\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A desperate masterpiece of a debut\" that tells a huge-hearted American saga--of love, violence, war, conspiracy and the aftermath of them all.\" --Bonnie Jo Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nicorvo's muscular and energetic prose will stun readers with its poignancy, while providing a punch to the solar plexus.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(Starred Review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A dash of Coetzee, a dram of Delillo, but mostly just the complicated compassion of Jay Nicorvo. \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutally beautiful novel.\" --Pam Houston, author of \u003ci\u003eContents May Have Shifted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It seems possible that Nicorvo has ingested all the darkness of this life and now breathes fire.\" Nick Flynn, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard--and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation--is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith three violent acts at its center--a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past--and set largely in the Catskills, \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougar--along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the characters--soldiers, civilians--struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they've caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they've caused. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJay Baron Nicorvo's \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e confronts a glaring cultural omission: the absence of women in our war stories. Like the best of its characters--who aspire more to goodness than greatness--this American novel hopes to darn a hole or two in the frayed national fabric.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAY BARON NICORVO lives on an old farm outside Battle Creek, MI, with his wife, Thisbe Nissen, their son, and a couple dozen chickens. His writing has appeared in\u003ci\u003e Salon, Poets \u0026amp; Writers, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Believer \u003c\/i\u003eand has been featured on NPR and PBS NewsHour. He's published a poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eDeadbeat, \u003c\/i\u003eand served as an editor at\u003ci\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and at \u003ci\u003ePEN America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752514912544,"sku":"9781250108944","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eacc8bf1739bce9ca2cb9bf05382d3b5.webp?v=1779997872","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-standard-grand-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}