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The title story of this highly praised book, about a small-town Texas science teacher threatening to flunk his high school's brilliantly talented football star, sets the collection's timely theme, the conflict between the image of how American men are supposed to act and the way they secretly feel like acting. This theme is skillfully modulated in almost all of the book's 11 selections--from "Stories of the Hunt," about a boy discovering that his ostensibly he-man woodsmans father doesn't in fact know the first thing about tracking deer, to "Immigration," about a Vietnamese refuge working in a Las Vegas casino and dreaming of becoming the world's greatest Elvis impersonator.

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