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Emporium
  • Published: 1 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9781784160104
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.99

Emporium

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The acclaimed and explosive debut short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction 2013

* By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 and the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014

* 'An idiosyncratic and compelling voice' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest - these are some of the compelling themes explored in this funny, sad, brilliantly bizarre debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on Los Angeles police payroll, a post apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman - each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids parents and lovers should fill.
  • Published: 1 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9781784160104
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Orphan Master’s Son, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Johnson’s other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. His previous books are Emporium, a short story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us. Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.
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Also by Adam Johnson

The Orphan Master's Son
Fortune Smiles: Stories
Parasites Like Us
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Praise for Emporium

Adam Johnson's stories capture youth's torque, its weird braid of exhilaration and loneliness. Except there's nothing humdrum here. Each of Johnson's fantasies, each peculiar landscape, glows hot with imagination

Esquire

Masterful ... beautifully crafted ... achingly poignant ... cleverly funny

San Francisco Chronicle

Johnson's audacious work blows the covers off the short story and leaves the genre newly invigorated

Chicago Tribune