Everything ravaged, everything burned / Wells Tower.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 238 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0374292191 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780374292195 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Main Library | Fiction | Tower, Wells | Available | 33111005574989 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
The brown coast -- Retreat -- Executors of important energies -- Down through the valley -- Leopard -- Door in your eye -- Wild America -- On the show -- Everything ravaged, everything burned.