We Live in Water Stories

Jess Walter

eBook - 2013

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019From 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 favoriteThese 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...

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Published
HarperCollins
Language
English
Main Author
Jess Walter
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size588 MB
ISBN9780062099204
Release Date2/12/2013
Kindle Book
ASINB0089LOEHW
Release Date2/12/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780062099204
Release Date2/12/2013