Education
He attended public schools, and graduated from Robbinsdale High School in 1974.
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Across My Big Brass Bed by Amdahl, Gary ( Author ) Jan-2014 Paperback
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Across My Big Brass Bed
("Amdahl is one whose gifts are staggering and hard won. T...)
"Amdahl is one whose gifts are staggering and hard won. The stories relate, by the way of guts through grace, the wholeness of a novel too good for philosophy. Gary Amdahl knows sports, men, women, and dogs, thank God, so thoroughly as to make them myth. Camus comes to mind, thought with great muscle." --Barry Hannah "Gary Amdahl is a language-obsessive with a dead-on feel for the almost bodily pulsations of sense-making, what Robert Frost called "sentence sounds," the shapes that uncannily anticipate the meanings we fill them with. He is, to boot, a free-wheeling-a whirling-diviner of associations. When the prose is on you don't need a night-light." --Sven Birkerts
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Visigoth: Stories
( Visigoth is a portrait of the American male — gritty, v...)
Visigoth is a portrait of the American male — gritty, violent, and fascinating. The protagonists in this collection of stories come from all walks of life — hockey players, middle managers, political hopefuls, and wayward husbands — but all share a tendency to turn towards violence when life begins spinning out of control. In "The Flyweight," an all-star high-school wrestler struggles with his own success and the expectations of others when he begins hearing voices after a schizophrenic breakdown. "Visigoth," the title story, depicts a college hockey player unable to understand that his relationship with an English professor is over. The novella "The Free Fall" focuses on a cycle of escalating violence in small farming and mining towns and the effect that it has on the main character and his family. Sharp, inquisitive, and witty, Visigoth challenges the reader to question the popular glory of violence in all its manifestations.
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Gary Amdahl
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Amdahl has published six books, and produced nine plays. He was awarded two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwrights" Center in Minneapolis, and was a participant in Midwest Playlabs in 1985. His stories, essays, poetry (original, translated, and set to music), book and theater reviews, literary feature articles, and interviews have appeared in Spolia, AGNI, A Public Space, The Massachusetts Review, The Gettysburg Review, Fiction, The Quarterly, Santa Monica Review, Third Bed, Minnetonka Review, New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Hungry Mind Review, and many other monthlies, weeklies, and dailies.
Amdahl has been married to author Leslie Brody since 1989.
Works
book
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Visigoth: Stories
( Visigoth is a portrait of the American male — gritty, v...)
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Across My Big Brass Bed
("Amdahl is one whose gifts are staggering and hard won. T...)
- Across My Big Brass Bed by Amdahl, Gary ( Author ) Jan-2014 Paperback
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Visigoth: Stories
