{"product_id":"the-standard-grand-9781250108944","title":"The Standard Grand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**One of the \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRail\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2017**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nicorvo is a bracingly original writer and a joy to read.\" --Dennis Lehane\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A desperate masterpiece of a debut\" that tells a huge-hearted American saga--of love, violence, war, conspiracy and the aftermath of them all.\" --Bonnie Jo Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nicorvo's muscular and energetic prose will stun readers with its poignancy, while providing a punch to the solar plexus.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(Starred Review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A dash of Coetzee, a dram of Delillo, but mostly just the complicated compassion of Jay Nicorvo. \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutally beautiful novel.\" --Pam Houston, author of \u003ci\u003eContents May Have Shifted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It seems possible that Nicorvo has ingested all the darkness of this life and now breathes fire.\" Nick Flynn, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard--and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation--is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith three violent acts at its center--a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past--and set largely in the Catskills, \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougar--along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the characters--soldiers, civilians--struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they've caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they've caused. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJay Baron Nicorvo's \u003ci\u003eThe Standard Grand\u003c\/i\u003e confronts a glaring cultural omission: the absence of women in our war stories. Like the best of its characters--who aspire more to goodness than greatness--this American novel hopes to darn a hole or two in the frayed national fabric.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Baron Nicorvo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250108944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2016 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2017 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJAY BARON NICORVO lives on an old farm outside Battle Creek, MI, with his wife, Thisbe Nissen, their son, and a couple dozen chickens. His writing has appeared in\u003ci\u003e Salon, Poets \u0026amp; Writers, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Believer \u003c\/i\u003eand has been featured on NPR and PBS NewsHour. He's published a poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eDeadbeat, \u003c\/i\u003eand served as an editor at\u003ci\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and at \u003ci\u003ePEN America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44233644245107,"sku":"9.78125E+12","price":43.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_496abaeb-d1bd-461a-937f-9876c369bda3.jpg?v=1768746342","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-standard-grand-9781250108944","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}