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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Wells Tower

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned By Wells Tower

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower


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Summary

'Wells Tower's stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular - violent, funny, bleak and beautiful. You need to read them, now' Michael Chabon

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Summary

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen 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. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His characters - marauding Vikings, washed-up entrepreneurs and jobbing hacks on local papers - are adrift from the mainstream, confused by contemporary masculinity, angry and aimless. Combining electric prose with compassion and dark wit, this is a major debut.

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Reviews

"These are lurid, ingenious, beautiful, delicate, and very funny stories. Full of pity and terror, they are also great fun to read. Wells Tower has written a brilliant book." --Benjamin Kunkel, author of "Indecision
""Wells Tower's stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular--violent, funny, bleak, and beautiful. You need to read them, now." --Michael Chabon, author of "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" and "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" "Wells Tower is a blindingly brilliant writer who does more than raise the bar for debut fiction: he hurls it into space. With the oversized heart of George Saunders, the demon tongue of Barry Hannah, and his very own conjuring tools that cannot here be named, Tower writes stories of aching beauty that are as crushingly funny and sad as any on the planet." --Ben Marcus, author of "Notable American Women" and "The Age of Wire and String"
"[An] outstanding debut collection . . . The strange and magnificent title story, in which Vikings set off again toward an oft-raided island, beautifully ties the collection together in its heartbreaking final paragraph. Tower's uncommon mastery of tone and wide-ranging sympathy creates a fine tension between wry humor and the primal rage that seethes just below the surface of each of his characters." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review and Pick of the Week)
"The title barely hints at the scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners power of the stories." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"Wells Tower's stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular--violent, funny, bleak, and beautiful. You need to read them, now." --Michael Chabon, author of "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" and "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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"These are lurid, ingenious, beautiful, delicate, and very funny stories. Full of pity and terror, they are also great fun to read. Wells Tower has written a brilliant book." --Benjamin Kunkel, author of "Indecision
""Wells Tower is a blindingly brilliant writer who does more than raise the bar for debut fiction: he hurls it into space. With the oversized heart of George Saunders, the demon tongue of Barry Hannah, and his very own conjuring tools that cannot here be named, Tower writes stories of aching beauty that are as crushingly funny and sad as any on the planet." --Ben Marcus, author of "Notable American Women" and "The Age of Wire and String"
"We need books like "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned" . . . What [Tower's] portraits lack in grandeur, they compensate for in their accuracy . . . [The characters] live the way we Americans do." --Benjamin Alsup, "Esquire
""[An] outstanding debut collection . . . The strange and magnificent title story, in which Vikings set off again toward an oft-raided island, beautifully ties the collection together in its heartbreaking final paragraph. Tower's uncommon mastery of tone and wide-ranging sympathy creates a fine tension between wry humor and the primal rage that seethes just below the surface of each of his characters." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review and Pick of the Week)
"The title barely hints at the scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners power of the stories." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"Tower's debut story collection confirms what readers of "Harper's," "McSweeney's," "The Paris Review," and other major publications have known for some time: Tower is a serious talent . . . Tower's voice is honest and strange, humorous and insightful."--Kevin Clouther, "Booklist
""Outstanding . . . Tower has crafted a powerful and assured debut collection." --Lawrence Rungren, "Library Journal
""Wells Tower's stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular--violent, funny, bleak, and beautiful. You need to read them, now." --Michael Chabon, author of "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" and "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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"These are lurid, ingenious, beautiful, delicate, and very funny stories. Full of pity and terror, they are also great fun to read. Wells Tower has written a brilliant book." --Benjamin Kunkel, author of"Indecision
""Wells Tower is a blindingly brilliant writer who does more than raise the bar for debut fiction: he hurls it into space. With the oversized heart of George Saunders, the demon tongue of Barry Hannah, and his very own conjuring tools that cannot here be named, Tower writes stories of aching beauty that are as crushingly funny and sad as any on the planet." --Ben Marcus, author of "Notable American Women" and "The Age of Wire and String"

About Wells Tower

Tower was born in Vancouver in 1973. He has been the recipient of the Paris Review Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Foundation award. He lives in New York.

Additional information

GOR002021097
9781847081209
1847081207
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Granta Books
2010-04-01
240
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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