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Emporium by Adam Johnson (2002, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670030724

ISBN-139780670030729

eBay Product ID (ePID)2013230

Product Key Features

Book TitleEmporium

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorAdam Johnson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-026804

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisGarnering advance praise from the likes of Ron Carlson, Mark Richard, and Jennifer Egan, Adam Johnson's Emporium marks the debut of a startling new voice in American fiction. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler raves, "Adam Johnson is the most exciting young writer I've ever read. . . . He gives extraordinary fictions that are at once universal and dazzlingly original." The voices that inhabit Adam Johnson's debut collection are all on intimate terms with loss. Their worlds are dyed by the indigo of loneliness and the invisible ink of abandonment. Yearning for connection, all of these characters seek meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids where parents and lovers should be: a father searches a darkened zoo for his troubled son; in a condemned Kmart, a girl bares her bulletproof vest to the aim of her boyfriend's pistol; a physicist pines for an astronaut trapped on the moon. In other stories, a cancer victim controls a satellite, a sniper trains his scope on the girl of his dreams, and a young woman waits for an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent to kick down the doors to her heart. Through thrilling prose and fearless scenes, Johnson shows that Christian power-lifters and depressed robots are no more surreal than fathers who vanish or mothers who waste away.

LC Classification NumberPS3610.O3E47 2001