Grab Bag FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Dark Rides, the first book in Grab Bag, tells the story of Derek, a gay teenager looking for love in carnivals, honky tonks, and hospitals. It's the 1950s. Derek finds solace only in the music of Hank Williams." Wish Book, the second book in Grab Bag, takes place in a different time: the Great Depression. A small city swarms with con men. Hucksters peddle poisonous patent medicines. Spiritualists bilk the bereaved. Characters converge on a downtown department store, where they clash and connect like cogs in a Rube Goldberg contraption.
FROM THE CRITICS
Toronto Star
Anyone interested in the more wicked, crafty and inventive forms of
Canadian writing would be well advised to spend time with McCormack.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
John Waters
Boy, can Dennis Cooper find 'em! Grab Bag will grab you,
all right; plain, simple, and hard. — Filmmaker
Grab Bag culls the best of the perverse and innocent world of
Derek McCormack. The mystery of objects, the lyricism of neglected lives,
the menace and nostalgia of the past--these are all ingredients in
this weird and beautiful parallel universe. — Edmund White
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