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ADAM JOHNSON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for his second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Orphan Master's Son ('Excavates the very meaning of life' New York Times). His short story 'Nirvana' (included here) won the Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award in 2014. He is the author of acclaimed short stories Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives with his family in San Francisco.
It is impossible not to be awed by these stories. Life, marriage, love, death, are all described here in the most amazingly unexpected ways; it seems at times that Adam, like the greatest of the great writers, has some kind of supernatural facility that allows him to see through to the pitch black core of things and to create a crystalline portrait of what he witnesses DONAL RYAN, author of the bestselling THE SPINNING HEART Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping. Sunday Times Johnson has a rare combination of inventiveness, intellectual pyrotechnics and emotional sophistication ... These stories are treasures. BBC Johnson packs more voice in his stories than most authors do in a novel ESQUIRE.COM Masterful The Washington Post
