Description: Now in paperback, a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist.
Brief description: Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of Apocalyptic Swing, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, and Rocket Fantastic. She is Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Review Quotes: Muscular and musical . . . combines boxing, Elvis, church burnings, sex and horses to produce a book that is pure Americana.