Amor and Psycho
  • Published: 15 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307741479
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00

Amor and Psycho

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Eleven provocative stories about sex and death, violence and desire, love and madness, from the acclaimed author of Daughters of the Revolution and The Bostons.

A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2013

Set against a vast American landscape that ranges from Manhattan to the lush rain forests and marijuana farms of Northern California, these eleven stories from the acclaimed author of The Bostons and Daughters of the Revolution dive into our darkest spaces, confronting the absurdity and poetry of human existence.
  • Published: 15 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307741479
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Carolyn Cooke

Carolyn Cooke’s short-story collection, The Bostons, was a winner of the 2002 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers and a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. Her fiction has appeared in AGNI, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and in two volumes each of The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, she teaches in the MFA writing program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

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Praise for Amor and Psycho

  • "Cooke's stories twist and turn, playing games with language.... They leave you with something: shards of phrases; a lifetime of attitudes conveyed in a word or an aside; or odd, perfect details that stick in your mind." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
  • "An edgy collection of powerful, engaging, offbeat stories.... The product of a mature and considerable talent." --Booklist