Thunderstruck & Other Stories

These nine stories are filled with longing, guilt and violence. * New York Times *
Jewelled and barbed with the beauty and brutality of real life, these are sentences of perfect weight and understanding. There are no fillers here, no stories that disappoint: the nine coalesce into something rare and understatedly breathtaking. Like the missing who haunt these stories, Thunderstruck is unforgettable. – Stuart Evers * Observer *
Wonderful, moving tales. – Erica Wagner * Financial Times *
An electric blend of hilarity and despair. – Bonnie Jo Campbell * O, The Oprah Magazine *
[A] powerful collection. – John Self * Independent on Sunday *
McCracken writes in lilting, contained prose, and imbues her narratives with wry humour and the soothing resonance of fairy tales… An unforgettable collection that should be irredeemably sad but, in fact, is strangely life-affirming. – Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times *
I was so enthralled by her world, I didn’t want to leave – Carys Davies * Metro *
Please do yourself a favour and secure a copy of this splendid book. And not because it is the winner of the Story Prize, but because is exceptionally good – Mario Guslandi * Nudge *

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag-ination, and Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award). She has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and she was chosen as one of Granta’s 20 Best American Writers Under 40. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.

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