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Author(s): Adam Johnson
"An idiosyncratic and compelling voice...These stories announce the arrival of a talented new writer". (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest - these are some of the compelling themes explored in this funny, sad, brilliantly bizarre debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on Los Angeles police payroll, a post apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman - each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids parents and lovers should fill.
General Information
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- : Transworld Publishers Ltd
- : Black Swan
- : 0.204
- : 01 June 2014
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Adam Johnson
- : Paperback
- : 246
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The acclaimed and explosive debut short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction 2013
"Adam Johnson's stories capture youth's torque, its weird braid of exhilaration and loneliness. Except there's nothing humdrum here. Each of Johnson's fantasies, each peculiar landscape, glows hot with imagination" Esquire "Masterful ... beautifully crafted ... achingly poignant ... cleverly funny" San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson's audacious work blows the covers off the short story and leaves the genre newly invigorated" Chicago Tribune
Adam Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His second novel THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in San Francisco with his family.
