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We Live in Water: Stories
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9780061926624
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Feb 12 2013
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Awards: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Washington State Book Award
ONE
OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter--a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite
These twelve stories--published over the last five years in Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Playboy, and other publications--veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing.
We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a ridiculously talented writer (New York Times), one of the freshest voices in American literature (Dallas Morning News).
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