Stephen Florida

Stephen Florida

<div><p>"In <I>Stephen Florida</I>, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing character study."<BR>―Hanya Yanagihara, author of <I>A Little Life</I></p><p><I>Foxcatcher</I> meets <I>The Art of Fielding</I>, <I>Stephen Florida</I> follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark.</p><p><B>Gabe Habash</B> is the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. He holds an MFA from New York University and lives in New York.</p></div>