Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

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• Hard Times

  In the nine stories in his first book, Wells Tower has invented a world of rough men and strong women. Often the men are older, battered, no longer successful, and the women have had their patience sorely tried. The husband’s affair in “The Brown Coa ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

• Fellow Freaks

  ‘Freaks and poor people, engaged always in some violent, destructive action,’ was how Flannery O’Connor once described the subjects of her fiction. She claimed that her vision of an American South full of distorted bodies and maimed souls was not gro ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  thank god that's over

  One of contemporary fiction's stars(Towers made the 20 under 40 best fiction writers list in the New Yorker this year) but honestly, such a downer. Only story that really stuck with me (even only 48 hours after finishing) is the title story which is a violent but somehow touching depiction of what s ... (continue)

  One of contemporary fiction's stars(Towers made the 20 under 40 best fiction writers list in the New Yorker this year) but honestly, such a downer. Only story that really stuck with me (even only 48 hours after finishing) is the title story which is a violent but somehow touching depiction of what seemed to be viking pirates during a raid. The rest was just one down and out story after another. But I want to get through that list....7 down 13 to go...

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• English Books
• Others 240 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1847081207
• ISBN-13: 9781847081209
• Pub date: Apr 01, 2010

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