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Availability:In StockContributor:Greg JacksonPublish date:2017-03-07Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250118059ISBN-10:1250118050UPC:9781250118059Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC91NNAK36

During a violent storm, a filmmaker escapes New York, accompanied by a woman who may be his therapist. A lawyer in the throes of divorce seeks refuge at her seaside cottage only to find a vagrant girl living in it. A dilettantish banker sees his ambitions laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. A group of friends gathers in the California desert for one last bacchanal, and a journalist finds his visit to the French country home of a former tennis star take a deeply unnerving turn.

Strivers, misfits, and children of privilege, the restless, sympathetic characters in Jackson's stellar short story collection, Prodigals, hew to passion and perversity through life's tempests. Theirs is a quest for meaning and authenticity in lives spoiled by self-knowledge and haunted by spiritual longing. Lyrical and unflinching, cerebral and surreal, this collection maps the degradations of contemporary life with insight and grace.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250118059ISBN-10:1250118050UPC:9781250118059Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC91NNAK36
GREG JACKSON grew up in Boston and coastal Maine. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Granta. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Virginia and has been a Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and a resident at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A winner of the Balch and Henfield prizes, he was a finalist for the 2014 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Prodigals is his first book.
Publisher: Picador USA

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