Ebook {Epub PDF} Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames

 · Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Buffalo Lockjaw is frightening, heart-rending, and beautiful I didn't want it to end."--Poe Ballantine, author of Things I Like About America "Greg Ames manages to evoke place and expose the complexities of character in a single swift phrase. It is a funny-sad, /5(79). Greg Ames is the author of Buffalo Lockjaw and Funeral Platter and assistant professor of English at Colgate University.

Greg Ames is the author of Buffalo Lockjaw, a novel that won the NAIBA Book of the Year Award, and Funeral Platter, a collection of twenty short stories. Find books like Buffalo Lockjaw from the world's largest community of readers. Goodreads members who liked Buffalo Lockjaw also liked: Playing for Thrill. "Buffalo Lockjaw, like its charming. Buffalo Lockjaw - Kindle edition by Ames, Greg. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Buffalo Lockjaw. Buffalo Lockjaw is a fine debut, and a marvelously creative view of a city too often used as punchline. Raise a Genny to Greg Ames—he, more than anyone, will appreciate it. —Christopher Schobert SUBSCRIBE NOW Back to the Table of Contents.

"Buffalo Lockjaw, like its charming, bitter screw-up of a narrator, reaches finally for larger meaning, and succeeds. A brazen and tender book about a city and a scene, a mother and a son, and the beauty and pain of several kinds of love.". I’ve been feeling down about literary fiction lately, so I’m glad I checked out an unassuming novel called Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames, a Brooklyn writer who grew up in Buffalo, New York. With a frothy winter beer on its cover and a title that recalls Vincent Gallo, the novel appears on first glance to [ ]. Greg Ames has written a beautiful novel. It is infused with dark comedy and pathos and great, hardboiled prose. In Buffalo Lockjaw, love of one’s parents and love of one’s hometown mix powerfully with the mad undertow of loss that seems as inevitable in life as gravity. I’m honored to share a last name—no relation—with such a wonderful writer.