Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

A NEW YORK TIMES BOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his car's windshield 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. Wells Tower's version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. With electric prose and savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a profound new collection of stories.

Tower, Wells: - Wells Tower is the author of the short story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. His short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. He received two Pushcart Prizes and the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review. He divides his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780374292195
ISBN 10	0374292191
Title	Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Author	Wells Tower
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar Straus Giroux
Year published	2009-03-17
Number of pages	238
Prizes	Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (First Fiction) 2009, Commended for Story Prize (Fiction Collection) 2009
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.