We Live in Water: Stories

Jess Walter

We Live in Water: Stories
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Country
United States
Published
12 February 2013
Pages
192
ISBN
9780061926624

We Live in Water: Stories

Jess Walter

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the 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 favorite

These twelve stories–published over the last five years in Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and other publications–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.

We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a ridiculously talented writer (New York Times), one of the freshest voices in American literature (Dallas Morning News).

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