Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Everything Ravaged Everything Burned
Paperback Edition: 1
A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival
after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His characters - marauding Vikings, washed-up entrepreneurs, and jobbing hacks on local papers - are adrift from the mainstream, confused by contemporary masculinity, angry and aimless. Combining electric prose with compassion and dark wit, this is a major debut.
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Featured in the June 2009 Teen Readsw newsletter.
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Pages : 238
Publisher : Granta
Publication date : 2010-04
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Short Stories