We the Animals by Justin Torres
In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become.We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It s heartbreaking. It s beautiful. It resembles no other book I ve read. Michael Cunningham
A miracle in concentrated pages, you are going to read it again and again. Dorothy Allison
Rumbles with lyric dynamite . . . Torres is a savage new talent. Benjamin Percy, Esquire
A fiery ode to boyhood . . . A welterweight champ of a book. NPR, Weekend Edition
A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver s or Jeffrey Eugenides s voice did when we first heard it. Washington Post
A novel so honest, poetic, and tough that it makes you reexamine what it means to love and to hurt. O, The Oprah Magazine
The communal howl of three young brothers sustains this sprint of a novel . . . A kind of incantation. The New Yorker
JUSTIN TORES is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Among many other things, he has worked as a farmhand, a dog walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller.
Author photograph (c) Gregory Crowley
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We the Animals, a national bestseller by Justin Torres, has been translated into fifteen languages and is now a feature film. He's had short fiction published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and other magazines, as well as nonfiction in The Guardian and The Advocate. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellow at Harvard, and a Cullman Center Fellow at The New York Public Library. He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was selected one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 for 2012. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Artists Rolón Fellowship in Writing, and the VCU Cabell First Writer Prize.
He was just appointed Picador Guest Professor of Literature at Leipzig University. He is an Associate Professor of English at UCLA and lives in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780547576725 |
| ISBN 10 | 0547576722 |
| Title | We the Animals |
| Author | Justin Torres |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2011-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2012, Commended for Triangle Awards (Debut Fiction) 2012, Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Debut Author) 2012 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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