| A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories Contributor(s): O'Connor, Scott (Author), Pinchot, Bronson (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1538436159 ISBN-13: 9781538436158 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the author of the critically acclaimed novels Untouchable and Half World comes a new, breathtaking short-story collection in the tradition of Annie Proulx's Close Range and Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.A young musician trapped beneath a collapsed building. A teenage bicycle thief searching for a kidnapped boy. An aging actor fighting against the erasure of his past.Scott O'Connor's breathtaking new work follows a diverse cast of characters living in Los Angeles whose lives intersect with an obscure science fiction film as they desperately seek escape and redemption from their own earthbound circumstances.Juxtaposing moments of wrenching tragedy with equal measures of humanity and grace, Thalassa is a stunning and unflinching cycle of stories. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pinchot, Bronson: - Bronson Pinchot has won eleven Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration and was named Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2010. He received his education at Yale University. He restores Greek Revival buildings and appears in television, film, and on stage whenever the pilasters and entablatures overwhelm him. O'Connor, Scott: -Scott O'Connor is the author of the novella Among Wolves, the novels Untouchable and Half World, and the short story collection Thalassa. He has been awarded the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories. He has written for Fox, Universal Television, and Parkes + MacDonald Productions, as well as the New York Times Magazine, Zyzzyva, Rattling Wall, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. |