Fortune Smiles: Stories - Hardcover

Johnson, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857522973 ISBN 13: 9780857522979

Publisher: Doubleday, 2015

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD 2014

By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr.

'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times

'Ironic, witty, super-intelligent' - The Times
Adam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet – a former Stasi prison warden in denial of his past, a refugee from North Korea unsettled by his new freedom, a UPS driver in hurricane-torn Louisiana looking for the mother of his son.

These are tales of love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Tender, wry, utterly compelling, they show us humanity where you might least expect it.

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Review:

"Ironic, witty, super-intelligent" (The Times)

"It is impossible not to be awed by these stories. Life, marriage, love, death, are all described here in the most amazingly unexpected ways; it seems at times that Adam, like the greatest of the great writers, has some kind of supernatural facility that allows him to see through to the pitch black core of things and to create a crystalline portrait of what he witnesses" (DONAL RYAN, author of the bestselling THE SPINNING HEART)

"Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping." (Sunday Times)

"Johnson has a rare combination of inventiveness, intellectual pyrotechnics and emotional sophistication . . . These stories are treasures." (BBC)

"Johnson packs more voice in his stories than most authors do in a novel" (ESQUIRE.COM)

"Masterful" (The Washington Post)

"...formidable, meaty tales that cling on and don’t let go." (The Independent)

"[Adam Johnson] is always perceptive and brave; his lines always sing and strut and sizzle and hush and wash and blaze over the reader." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Adam Johnson . . . demonstrates again his boundless imagination, his ability to capture an entire personality in a few perfectly chosen details, and his gift for making foreign territory feel utterly familiar. Johnson is willing to go into real darkness and send a beacon back from the depths of tragedy, and his voice is as inevitable and fresh as anything being written today." (Matthew Thomas)

"Entrancing." (O: The Oprah Magazine)

Book Description:

Adam Johnson's first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 for his novel THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award 2014, this major story collection, including brand new work, has won the National Book Award for Fiction 2015.

For fans of international literary fiction, especially Junot Diaz, Jonathan Franzen and Garth Greenwell.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0857522973
• ISBN 13: 9780857522979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320