Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Hardcover

Tower, Wells

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374292191 ISBN 13: 9780374292195

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009

Synopsis

A debut collection of darkly comic short works includes the stories of a man who is thrown out of his house when his wife discovers his infidelity in a bizarre way, teen cousins who share a woodland comeuppance, and a youth who flees to a carnival life after being bitten by his father.

About this title

Review:

"This arresting debut collection of stories decisively establishes Mr. Tower as a writer of uncommon talent."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "Artful and funny and empathetic. His fictional universe is a perfectly balanced little biosphere of violence and mercy, aggression and nurturing."--Sam Anderson, "New York" magazine "A striking, often savage first collection of stories. Tower's language is as compact and muscular as a wrestler's body."--Heller McAlpin, "San Francisco Chronicle""" "Tower writes about raggedy men, neglected boys, and quarrelsome Vikings who are down on their luck (if they ever had any). But the stories are very funny, and surprising, and possess a rugged beauty."--Vendela Vida, "Vanity Fair""" "Tower seems incapable of writing a boring description. A crackling, head-turning debut."--Jonathan Miles, "Men's Journal""" "It sometimes feels as if there's nothing Tower can't render in arresting fashion. His

Review:

'Tower routinely brings combustible materials together ... and has fun watching them ignite' -Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0374292191
• ISBN 13: 9780374292195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238