- Literary, American Short stories, Family Life, Short Stories (single author)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson is one of America’s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson’s new book will only further his reputation as one of our most original writers.
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- Author
- Adam Johnson
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Signatuur, Doubleday, Cengage Gale
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Spanish, English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781784160463
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ADAM JOHNSON is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, Granta, and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium, a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco. --https://www.facebook.com/pg/adamjohnsonbooks/about/
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