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Ecco
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
176 pages
ISBN: 006239438X
EAN: 9780062394385
Kindle: B00OG9IWZG
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In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel
Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh,
complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir
Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly
confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human
heart. A man runs away from his grave and into a
maelstrom of bullets and fire. A Hollywood fixer finds love
over the corpse of a dead celebrity. A morbidly obese woman
imagines a new life with the jewel thief who is scheming to
rob the store where she works. A man earns the name “Mad
Dog” and lives to regret it. Denizens of the shadows
who live outside the law—from the desolate meth labs of the
Ozark Mountains to the dog-fighting rings of Detroit to the
lavish Los Angeles mansions of the rich and famous—the
characters in Love and Other Wounds all thirst for
something seemingly just beyond their reach. Some are on the
run, pursued by the law or propelled relentlessly forward by
a dangerous past that is disturbingly close. Others are
searching for a semblance of peace and stability, and even
love, in a fractured world defined by seething violence and
ruthless desperation. All are bruised, pushed to their
breaking point and beyond, driven to extremes they never
imagined. Crackling with cinematic energy, raw and
disquieting yet filled with pathos and a darkly vital humor,
Love and Other Wounds is an unforgettable debut
from an electrifying new voice.
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