AJFS0-7 Adam Johnson - Fortune Smiles.nfo
General Information
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Title: Fortune Smiles: Stories
Author: Adam Johnson
Read By: W. Morgan Sheppard, Jonathan McClain, Cassandra Campbell, Dominic Hoffman, Will Damron, Greg Chun
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Fiction - Literary - Short Stories
Publisher: Random House Audio
Abridged: No
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Media: Digital
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Total Duration: 8:18:31
Total MP3 Size: 228.39
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea,
The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative
and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David
Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson's new book will only further
his reputation as one of our most original writers. Subtly surreal,
darkly comic, both hilarious and heartbreaking, Fortune Smiles is a
major collection of stories that gives voice to the perspectives we
don't often hear while offering something rare in fiction: a new way
of looking at the world.
In six masterful stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural
disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes
the personal. "Nirvana", which won the prestigious Sunday Times short
story prize, portrays a programmer, whose wife has a rare disease, finding
solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States.
In "Hurricanes Anonymous" - first included in the Best American Short
Stories anthology - a young man searches for the mother of his son in
a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. "George Orwell
Was a Friend of Mine" follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East
Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered
in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson
returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors
from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul,
while one cannot forget the woman he left behind.
Unnerving, riveting, and written with a timeless quality, these stories
confirm Johnson as one of America's greatest writers and an indispensable
guide to our new century.
What the Critics Say
"How do you follow a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel? For Johnson, the
answer is a story collection, and the tales are hefty and memorable...."
(Publishers Weekly starred review)
"Tragedy is always close to the surface in Johnson's work - with tragicomic
layerings.... Bittersweet, elegant, full of hard-won wisdom: this is
no ordinary book, either." (Kirkus Reviews starred review)
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