We Live in Water: Stories Paperback - 2013
by Jess Walter
The first collection of short fiction from "New York Times"-bestselling author 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 one of America's most talked-about writers
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We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In "Thief," a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out 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. And the collection's final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times.
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- Title We Live in Water: Stories
- Author Jess Walter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY
- Date 2013-02-12
- ISBN 9780061926624 / 0061926620
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (19.81 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2013, Page 40
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/27/2013, Page 14
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2012, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 02/10/2013, Page 9
- People Weekly, 03/11/2013, Page 57
- Publishers Weekly, 12/24/2012, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 02/15/2013, Page 0
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