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The Lousy Adult
William J. Cobb
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Description for The Lousy Adult
Paperback. Cobb's The Fire Eaters"Cobb's short stories, printed in the New Yorker and other magazines, hinted at the power he displays in this beautifully controlled and convincing debut, winner of the 1992 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel."-Publisher's Weekly Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
In The Lousy Adult, William J. Cobb reveals a world where love and respect collide with achievement and desire, a world where people often get what they want, yet must pay the price of alienation, remorse, and retribution in order to obtain it. In "The Sea Horse," a teenage boy defends a battered woman against her abusive husband while he deals with the loss of his own parents. In "Warsaw, 1984," a young man travels through Europe and ends up in a relationship in a country he can't understand. The Lousy Adult presents ten short stories about defrocked priests, guilty ... Read more
In The Lousy Adult, William J. Cobb reveals a world where love and respect collide with achievement and desire, a world where people often get what they want, yet must pay the price of alienation, remorse, and retribution in order to obtain it. In "The Sea Horse," a teenage boy defends a battered woman against her abusive husband while he deals with the loss of his own parents. In "Warsaw, 1984," a young man travels through Europe and ends up in a relationship in a country he can't understand. The Lousy Adult presents ten short stories about defrocked priests, guilty ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421411477
SKU
V9781421411477
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Ref
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About William J. Cobb
William J. Cobb is a novelist, essayist, and short fiction writer whose work has been published in The Antioch Review, The Mississippi Review, The New Yorker, and many others. He is author of three novels- The Bird Saviors, The Fire Eaters, and Goodnight, Texas-and a book of stories, The White Tattoo.
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