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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

By Tower, Wells
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
In Tower's debut collection of stories, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves in an America that is touched by the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, and wayward sons.

Details

Authors: Tower, Wells
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780312429294
ISBN10: 0312429290
Page Count: 256
Dimensions: 5.6x0.7x8.16
Publisher: Picador USA

Strand Notes

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his car's windshield doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. The author's debut collection produces a withering version of America - failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless father, wayward sons - brimming over with electric prose and savage wit.

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his car's windshield doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. Wells Tower's version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. With electric prose and savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a profound new collection of stories.

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