Slime Line - Maynard, Jake

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Résumé :
A trippy and darkly funny portrait of the commercial fishing industry, Slime Line is the tragicomic yarn of one troubled college dropout's desperate attempts to remake himself into a hard-nosed working man.

In the wake of his father's death, Garrett Deaver washes up at a salmon processing plant in his dad's old stomping grounds of Alaska. There, he renames himself Beaver--because just like a beaver, he's an industrious motherfucker-- and vows to become a supervisor at Klak Fancy Salmon, LLC. But moving up within the industry's seasonal underclass is anything but simple, and soon he finds himself with real, and imagined, enemies at the plant. As amphetamines scramble his sense of reality, and secrets about his father's life are revealed, the job he'd hoped would bring him salvation threatens to leave him broke, alone, and--maybe even literally--underwater.

In a voice as profane as it is poetic, Slime Line skewers the contrived TV portrayals of commercial fishing and guts the mythos of the self-made man, leaving only questions about what we owe each other, our families, and the people and places responsible for the food we take for granted.
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Biographie:
Jake Maynard is a writer from rural Pennsylvania whose stories and essays appear in Guernica, Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Electric Lit, The New Republic, The New York Times, and others. His experiences working in the commercial fishing industry inspired his debut novel, Slime Line.

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