Book : We Live In Water Stories - Walter, Jess

-Titulo Original : We Live In Water: Stories

-Fabricante :

Harper Perennial

-Descripcion Original:

A HarperPerennial Paperback OriginalThe first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favoriteThe New Frontier is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of twelve stories published over the last five years in Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and other publications that veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing.In “Thief,” an aluminum worker turns unlikely detective to solve the mystery of which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In “We Live in Water,” a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In “Anything Helps,” a homeless man has to “go to cardboard” to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In “Virgo,” a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope.“In Vegas we stay one step ahead of the wrecking ball Sahara, Riviera, Imperial Palace, New Frontier Goin’ old strip, we call it,” muses the narrator of the collection’s title story. “I have this theory, that Las Vegas will be the only American city that future archaeologists will find...and these future archaeologists will recreate our entire culture based solely on this one shallow and cynical little shithole. And maybe they’ll be right.” Review “Walter’s got a great ear and a genius for sympathy with America’s new dispossessed.” - Alan Cheuse, NPRs All Things Considered“Walter is a bighearted man who excels at writing about other bighearted, if broken, men. That generosity of spirit coupled with Walter’s seeming inability to look away from the messy bits, elevates these stories from dirges to symphonies.” - New York Times Book Review“Walter (Beautiful Ruins) writes-beautifully. . . . Darkly funny, sneakily sad, these stories are very, very good. The algorithm for this debut collection is straightforward: if you like to read, you’ll like this book.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review“Jess Walter, who is revered for his novels, shows a gritty side in these clear-cut stories... Each word is perfectly placed...[Walter] brings his first story collection to a smashing end.” - Daily Beast“Mr. Walter brings (his) outlook to short-story writing easily, and with a vengeance… His most bleakly funny, hard-edge book in years.” - Janet Maslin, New York Times“This badass collection aligns itself... with Walter’s gritty, bighearted novels.” - Esquire“[Walter] can mine the least scintilla of humor and wit from his characters’ broken lives--people whose dreams will surely not come true but who somehow keep trying.” - Shelf Awareness“Brims with humanity. A-” - Entertainment Weekly“Wildly entertaining and thought-provoking fiction from a prodigiously talented writer.” - Booklist“This debut story collection from Walter proves he’s as skilled at satire and class commentary in the short form as in his novels…A witty and sobering snapshot of recession-era America.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Deliver[s] unexpected laughs while playing with what it is we think we know…As a reader, I delight in Walter’s work. As a writer (humor me here), I curse. He’s so freakishly, fiendishly good, it isn’t fair.” - Seattle Times“With a cineaste’s eye, [Walter] mov[es] the action at a terrific pace, such velocity and narrative swing…What he makes us understand is bracing, clear. Fiction or no, it is here we see Walter as trusted interlocutor, saying, let me show you, this is