Acknowledgments
Pushing the Knives
One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist
Sawdust and Glue
Can Picking
Everything a Snake Needs
The Fire Chasers
Subdivision Accidents
Ice-Cream Dream
We Ride Back
The Shepherd’s Work
Conch Tongue
One More for You
Strong as Paper Men
Building Walls
Workmen’s Compensation
Touching in Texas
Dustin M. Hoffman painted houses in Michigan for ten years
and is now an assistant professor of English at Winthrop
University in South Carolina. His short fiction has appeared in
many magazines, including Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review,
Puerto del Sol, Midwestern Gothic, and Cimarron Review, and his
story “Building Walls” received a Pushcart Prize special
mention.
"The joy found on the page makes for a thoroughly memorable
read."—Publishers Weekly
"One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist is one of those reads that makes you
want to scream about it from the rooftops immediately upon
finishing."—Malcolm Avenue Review
"This set of 16 stories takes the reader on a compelling trip
through the pressure-cooker world of the blue-collar worker."—Shelf
Awareness
“Who would have thought that stories about work could contain
such magic, such music, such imaginative universality, so many
desperadoes who cling to their jobs as madly as winos to their
bottles? Dustin M. Hoffman has made a dazzling debut.”—Jaimy
Gordon, author of the National Book Award–winning Lord of
Misrule
“Heartfelt and humorous and always keen to the ways our working
lives serve to reveal our more personal hopes and dreams. I won’t
soon forget these stories, which thrilled and moved me page after
page.”—Matt Bell, author of Scrapper
“Utterly unique and so very important.”—Donald Ray Pollock, author
of The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff
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