We're In Trouble - Softcover

Coake, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670915432 ISBN 13: 9780670915439

Publisher: Viking, 2005

Synopsis

'When you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe' Nick Hornby

A young boy is driven through the night across the heartlands of America in the hands of a man who may or may not be his father. A musician suddenly finds himself the legal guardian of his best friend's three-year-old son. A law-enforcement officer recalls the murder, many years before, of a married woman with whom he was having an affair. A woman in Europe waits for news of her husband's latest death-defying mountain climb ...

Shocking, sophisticated, utterly compelling and unforgettable, We're In Trouble shows ordinary people struggling to cope with what life throws at them. We see love being tested by death, and innocence and experience colliding in moments of revelation. And throughout this exceptional debut, we are made to feel the truth of his characters' lives as Coake transforms them into cathartic art.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR "WE'RE IN TROUBLE"
"Sometimes when you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe . . . They're beautifully written, and they have bottom, but they're never dull and they all contain striking and dramatic narrative ideas."--Nick Hornby, author of "A Long Way Down, "in "The Believer"
"Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme--love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death)--from seemingly every angle. A-."--"Entertainment Weekly"
PRAISE FOR "WE'RE IN TROUBLE"
Sometimes when you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe . . . They’re beautifully written, and they have bottom, but they’re never dull and they all contain striking and dramatic narrative ideas.”--Nick Hornby, author of "A Long Way Down, "in "The Believer"
Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme--love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death)--from seemingly every angle. A-.”--"Entertainment Weekly"
PRAISE FOR "WE'RE IN TROUBLE"

"Sometimes when you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe . . . They're beautifully written, and they have bottom, but they're never dull and they all contain striking and dramatic narrative ideas."--Nick Hornby, author of "A Long Way Down, "in "The Believer"

"Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme--love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death)--from seemingly every angle. A-."--"Entertainment Weekly"
PRAISE FOR"WE'RE IN TROUBLE"

"Sometimes when you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe . . . They're beautifully written, and they have bottom, but they're never dull and they all contain striking and dramatic narrative ideas."--Nick Hornby, author of"A Long Way Down, "in"The Believer"

"Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme--love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death)--from seemingly every angle. A-."--"Entertainment Weekly"
PRAISE FOR "WE'RE IN TROUBLE"
Sometimes when you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe . . . They re beautifully written, and they have bottom, but they re never dull and they all contain striking and dramatic narrative ideas. --Nick Hornby, author of "A Long Way Down, "in "The Believer"
Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme--love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death)--from seemingly every angle. A-. --"Entertainment Weekly"
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PRAISE FOR WE'RE IN TROUBLE
Sometimes when you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe . . . They re beautifully written, and they have bottom, but they re never dull and they all contain striking and dramatic narrative ideas. --Nick Hornby, author of A Long Way Down, in The Believer
Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme--love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death)--from seemingly every angle. A-. --Entertainment Weekly
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From the Back Cover:

"Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death) from seemingly every angle. A-." Entertainment Weekly

From a wife waiting for news of her husband's latest death-defying climb to a sheriff thrown into turmoil after his close friend enacts a horrifying murder-suicide, Christopher Coake s unforgettable characters experience love staring in the face of death. As their love darkens and perseveres, it elicits either the best or the worst in them. With the complexity, depth, and narrative drive of a novel, Coake s extraordinary debut collection makes us feel the truth of his imperiled characters' lives and transforms it into cathartic art. We re in Trouble is at once suspenseful, empathic, and almost unbearably moving.
"Coake has . . . done something both alarming and amazing: He has taken his proximity to mortality's horrors, mined them for their truest nature, married them to a sure hand for storytelling and presented us all with a debut book of stories, We're in Trouble, that is both beautiful in its elegance and merciless in its intensity."--Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
"I've read more than a thousand stories a year for the past eight years and nothing nothing has surpassed the work of Mr. Coake. You will be stunned, you will have tears in your eyes, and you will remember these stories for the rest of your life." Otto Penzler, The Best American Mystery Stories

Christopher Coake lives in Reno, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670915432
• ISBN 13: 9780670915439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320