We Live in Water

图书信息

作者	Walter, Jess
出版社	Harper Perennial
ISBN	9780062099204
出版时间	2013-02-12
字数	20.3万
分类	Harper Perennial,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In "Thief," a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In "We Live in Water," a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In "Anything Helps," a homeless man has to "go to cardboard" to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In "Virgo," a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collection's final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times.

目录

Dedication

Contents

Anything Helps

We Live in Water

Thief

Can a Corn

Virgo

Helpless Little Things

Please

Don’t Eat Cat

The New Frontier

The Brakes

The Wolf and the Wild

Wheelbarrow Kings

Statistical Abstract for My Hometown of Spokane, Washington

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Books by Jess Walter

Copyright

About the Publisher