We live in water
Subtitle: stories
By: Jess Walter
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780061926624
Subjects: American Short stories
Description: "We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In "Thief," a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In "We Live in Water," a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In "Anything Helps," a homeless man has to "go to cardboard" to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In "Virgo," a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collection's final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times."--from cover, p. [4]
Table of contents: title: Anything helps --; title: We live in water --; title: Thief --; title: Can a corn --; title: Virgo --; title: Helpless little things --; title: Please --; title: Don't eat cat --; title: The new frontier --; title: The brakes --; title: The wolf and the wild --; title: Wheelbarrow kings --; title: Statistical abstract for my hometown of Spokane, Washington.