Daniel Scott's debut short-story collection is written with a relentless honesty and an unusually focuesed and knowing insight into the drama in the daily lives of a wide assortment of ordinary Americans. Scott is a master of the small, puzzling, and inconclusive moments of human contact between co-workers, friends, and family members. His writing is spare, passionate, and powerful. He is a realist in the tradition of Richard Yates, and he is a sympathetic and humane storyteller in the tradition of Tobias Wolff. Jonathan Williams has said, "Daniel Scott is terrific. Only Annie Proulx in my experience is flat out as tough as this. Check out the prose. It can be very precise and stripped down: 'Vi collects the cards left on the table and shuffles them. She deals. "Let's play hearts," she says. "Nickel a trick.'" Or nuanced: 'In the morning, Dot woke up before the alarm clock went off. She tiptoes around the bedroom so as not to wake Will, who usually didn't get up before eleven. It was not so much that she didn't want to wake him up, she just didn't want him awake.' Prepare some extra clothes, this is new country...Daniel Scott will astonish you." "With wit, nerve, and some disarming depth of feeling, "Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning", prowls through the imagination like some dark shining animal. A fierce debut." Paul Lisicky 6 x 9 in.
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