Emporium
Subtitle: Stories
By: Adam Johnson.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Viking
Published: April 1, 2002
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Harcover
Number of pages: 246
Description: An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest—these are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection. 

A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay Canadian astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on the LAPD payroll, a post-apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman—each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids that parents and lovers should fill. 

With imaginative grace and verbal acuity, Johnson is satirical without being cold, clever without being cloying, and heartbreaking without being sentimental. He shreds the veneer of our media-saturated, self-help society, revealing the lonely isolation that binds us all together.
Notes: First published in 2006 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam, Inc.
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Table of contents: label: 1
title: Teen Sniper; label: 33
title: Your Own Backyard; label: 59
title: The Death-Dealing Cassini Satellite; label: 79
title: Trauma Plate; label: 97
title: Cliff Gods of Acapulco; label: 125
title: The Jughead of Berlin; label: 155
title: The History of Cancer; label: 167
title: The Canadanaut; label: 205
title: The Eighth Sea; label: 245
title: Acknowledgments