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Are You Here For What I'm Here For? (Paperback): Brian Booker

Are You Here For What I'm Here For? (Paperback)

Brian Booker

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Readers will be intrigued by the way these stories transgress the boundaries of the uncanny and the real, incorporating the ever-present threat of global pandemics (including encephalitis lethargica, described by Oliver Sacks in Awakenings), natural disasters (including the infamous 1889 flood of Johnstown, PA, which occurred after a dam failure and resulted in the deaths of over 2,200 people), and the radical therapeutic communities of the 1960s and '70s that transformed into the profitable, pseudo-medical and religious, self-help programs of today. Brian Booker is an Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate whose fiction has been published by Vice and in major literary journals and magazines such as the New England Review, Tin House, One Story, and Conjunctions. This well-honed collection should be a breakout debut. Bellevue has developed a reputation of excellence with short story collections. Recent collections have been reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, on NPR's All Thing Considered and Morning Edition (by Nancy Pearl), and in the pages of O, The Oprah Magazine and Elle. They have also been included on Amazon.com's Best Books of the Month list and named as Library Journal and Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year.

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Imprint: Bellevue Literary Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2016
Authors: Brian Booker
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-942658-12-2
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN: 1-942658-12-5
Barcode: 9781942658122

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