Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
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Author: Wells Tower
ISBN: 9780374292195
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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Publisher Description:
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 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.
In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. Combining electric prose with savage wit, "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned" is a major debut, announcing a voice we have not heard before.
