Summary
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD 2014
By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of The Orphan Master’s Son, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award, comes a major story collection for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr.
‘Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784160463 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784160466 |
| Author: | Adam Johnson |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
Ironic, witty, super-intelligent * The Times *
It is impossible not to be awed by these stories. Life, marriage, love, death, are all described here in the most amazingly unexpected ways; it seems at times that Adam, like the greatest of the great writers, has some kind of supernatural facility that allows him to see through to the pitch black core of things and to create a crystalline portrait of what he witnesses * DONAL RYAN, author of the bestselling THE SPINNING HEART *
Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping. * Sunday Times *
Johnson has a rare combination of inventiveness, intellectual pyrotechnics and emotional sophistication … These stories are treasures. * BBC *
Johnson packs more voice in his stories than most authors do in a novel * ESQUIRE.COM *
Masterful * The Washington Post *
…formidable, meaty tales that cling on and don’t let go. * The Independent *
[Adam Johnson] is always perceptive and brave; his lines always sing and strut and sizzle and hush and wash and blaze over the reader. * The New York Times Book Review *
Adam Johnson … demonstrates again his boundless imagination, his ability to capture an entire personality in a few perfectly chosen details, and his gift for making foreign territory feel utterly familiar. Johnson is willing to go into real darkness and send a beacon back from the depths of tragedy, and his voice is as inevitable and fresh as anything being written today. * Matthew Thomas *
Entrancing. * O: The Oprah Magazine *
About The Author
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for his second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Orphan Master’s Son. His short story ‘Nirvana’ won the prestigious Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award. He is the author of acclaimed story collections, Fortune Smiles and Emporium, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives with his family in San Francisco.
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