The Right Man for the Job

Gunnar and Dewy are "repo" men - one white, one black - who work in a tough, inner-city neighborhood for a furniture and appliance rental company. Dewy, a foul-mouthed realist, happily takes Gunnar under his wing and tries to teach him how to maneuver safely though the dangers of the Columbus, Ohio streets. But Gunnar, fresh from the Wisconsin farmland misses the countryside and lacks the heart for his job. At night he returns home to an increasingly miserable relationship with his girlfriend, Margaret, a former drug dealer with a trust fund and a ten-year-old son, who has moved to the city with Gunnar to study at the university. Both were hoping for a new start, but their lives have only gotten worse. To escape his escalating arguments with Margaret, Gunnar begins to spend more time on the job with Dewy. Together they devise increasingly ingenious ways to reclaim property from their most recalcitrant customers. They become fixated in particular on a woman who will not respond to any of their attempts to repossess her furniture. Both Dewy and the customer refuse to give in. And thus the stage is set for a series of events that send Gunnar's life spiraling further out of control.

המשפט הראשון: This October Saturday there is sun beyond the Ohio haze, and I have become a professional asshole here in Columbus, a sweating man who knocks on doors in blue coveralls and a button-down shirt and says, all day, "How could you let your rental payment go past due?"

שנה

1997

שפה

English

הוצאה

Harper Perennial

מהדורות

2

עמודים

304

ISBN

9780060928957

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata