When I reach the rooftop, I pull the dustcovers off my rifle scope and head for a folding chair leaned up against an air-conditioning unit-right where I left it the last time I was up here.
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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.
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Emporium: Stories
April 1, 2002, Viking
Harcover
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New York City, New York, USA
Table of Contents
1.
Teen Sniper
33.
Your Own Backyard
59.
The Death-Dealing Cassini Satellite
79.
Trauma Plate
97.
Cliff Gods of Acapulco
125.
The Jughead of Berlin
155.
The History of Cancer
167.
The Canadanaut
205.
The Eighth Sea
245.
Acknowledgments
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First published in 2006 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam, Inc.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
$24.95; C$35.99
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