Wild Punch

About this book

Fiction. These debut stories set in northern New England portray the revelatory moments of small-timers clergymen hotheads day laborers motorcycle racers loggers horse farmers and young veterans of the Gulf War. In WILD PUNCH Creston Lea achieves the rare congruence of language and landscape. Creston Leas writing is realistic and understated. His style can be compared to writers like Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. He is as much a master of local grit as he is of local color. Lea is an author who clearly loves his characters. He understands their contradictions and their stark daily realities and he writes about them with an authority based on authenticity generosity grace and sharply observed humanity.