Prince of the World
Stories
In these six stories, Chris Howard reasserts his talent for evoking the gritty and the apocalyptic with poetic grace.Intelligent People Speaking Reasonably follows two Iraq vets adrift in the civilian life of the Pacific Northwest.Space is Kindness witnesses the unexpected death of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan from the perspective of a local reporter and a photographer rushing to the crash-site in 2000.Darkstar takes place in Dublin and follows a young outcast named Sailor through grimy, pre Apocalyptic streets as he tries to find the soulmate he hasn't seen since childhood.Son of Man tells the story of the Manson family from the perspectiv…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60980-438-1
- EAN: 9781609804381
- Produktnummer: 15751906
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Über den Autor
After an adolescence spent in Illinois and Missouri, Christopher Howard set off with the Peace Corps for Mongolia in the late 1990s, before returning home with a severe case of giardiasis. His short story How to Make Millions in the Oil Market, published in McSweeney's and inspired by his time abroad, was nominated for the 2008 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Along with Jodi Picoult, he was one of two authors selected to provide a short story for the launch of Amazon Singles in January 2011. Howard lives in Illinois.
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