Unsung Heroes of American Industry
by Poirier, Mark JudeFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-03-20
Publisher(s): Miamax
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Summary
Worm farms, pearl-button making, chicken processing, pornography, and beauty pageantry. These quirky cottage industries hold the potential to make fortunes, though it's more likely that they'll lead to bankruptcy and shattered dreams. And here, Mark Jude Poirier introduces the misfits and visionaries who embody the aspirations -- and frequently the lunacy -- of the American entrepreneur.Following his highly acclaimed debut collection, Naked Pueblo, and first novel, Goats, Poirier returns to life on the edge in tales that race across the American landscape, finding individualists and their outrageous professions in every region of the United States, from Washington, D.C., to Southern California, New England to Louisiana.
Author Biography
Mark Jude Poirier is a graduate of Georgetown, Stanford, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The author of Naked Pueblo and Goats, he recently was awarded a Chesterfield screenwriting fellowship with Paramount Pictures. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and Archer City, Texas
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