num_pages: 192
description: From the author of the acclaimed novel THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN and the award-winning collection THE TWO SAMS comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales...Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them.In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover -- and sometimes even survive -- the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.
language: English
title: American Morons
titlecomplete: American Morons
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Collections, Horror, Short Story Collection, Fantasy
ratings_count: 112
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: International Horror Guild Award
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection
publisher: Earthling Publications