This debut collection from the man Malcolm Gladwell described as a genius took readers by storm. From the slums of Haiti to a golf course in Myanmar, and from the Colombian jungle to the diamond mines of Sierra Leone, Ben Fountain's impeccable and devastatingly funny stories describe a world in political and social upheaval, and the lives caught in the balance.
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Weight: 170g
Dimensions: 129 x 130mm
Publication Date: 16 May 2013
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780857867117
About Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and a debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and was shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award. In addition he has received the PEN/Hemingway Award the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction an O. Henry Award and two Pushcart Prizes. He was also shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in 2012. His fiction has been published in Harper's The Paris Review Zoetrope: All-Story and Stories from the South: The Year's Best and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times among other publications. He lives in Dallas Texas.
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