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ОглавлениеThe Metal Shredders
Nancy Zafris
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
either are the product of the author's imagination or are used
fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Unbridled Books
Copyright © 2002 by Nancy Zafris
First paperback edition 2003
First Unbridled Books paperback edition 2013
Unbridled Books paperback ISBN: 978-1-60953-107-2
Electronic edition E-ISBN: 978-1-60953-108-9
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not
be reproduced in any form without permission.
Published simultaneously in Canada
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zafris, Nancy.
The metal shredders : a novel / by Nancy Zafris.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-399-14922-8
1. Family-owned business enterprises—Fiction. 2.
Scrap metal industry—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—
Fiction. 4. Columbus (Ohio)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3576.A285 M47 2002 2002018571 813'.54—dc21
Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Sam and Jim
I would like to express my gratitude to Betty McDaniel who introduced me to Freddy Loef, a generous man who shared his amazing knowledge of the scrap recycling business with me. I also want to thank my editor Greg Michalson, my agent Gail Hochman, Michelle Herman, Gretchen McBeath, Anesa Miller, Michael Sweeney, and my father Stephan Sydor—with a special thanks to Heather Schroder. For editorial advice and emotional support, I am fortunate to be able to rely on Julian Anderson, Keith Banner, Sharon Dilworth, Joe Freda, Bob Harrist, David Lynn, Jean Reinhold and, last in the alphabet but first in everything else, Jim Zafris.
Portions of the manuscript were written under the financial support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Aspects of this novel were based on the short story "The Metal Shredders," published in The People I Know (University of Georgia Press), and The Flannery O'Connor Award, Selected Stories (Charles East, ed., University of Georgia Press).
