An End to All ThingsAn End to All Things
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Book, 2012
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Current format, Book, 2012, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsWhen Jared Yates Sexton finished his MFA and returned to his hometown in Indiana, he found a population plagued by the kind of turmoil and tension usually reserved for fiction. Unemployment and uncertainty lurked everywhere he looked. In his debut story collection, this pervasive turbulence tilts into the fantastical as we observe the inspired, absurd, and even horrific moments in the lives of lost and luckless Midwesterners looking for something to believe in. Through language that's both striking and unassuming, Sexton creates a dangerous and disturbing world in which everything and everyone teeters precariously on the edge of total chaos; a world that bears a startling resemblance to our own. "The reordering of the world as we once knew it has left the subjects of these stories, and their real-life counterparts among us, adrift without bearings, without compasses, without familiar landmarks on which to safely anchor. As readers, we are helplessly witness to their peril and left, with them, on the horizon of something yet unknown." - Books, Personally "Stocked with short, precise, unpretentious stories. Great sentences--shades of Hannah, Carver, Pancake... It's good stuff--feels real without the strains of literary realism." - Bibliokept "Sexton's writing is invigorating … [He] pushes through the monotonous bullshit to true beauty. As he states, "You'll learn before too long. You'll get the idea. They put a shovel in your hand and you dig. That's what you do" - The Literary Man
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- [Darnestown, Md.] : Atticus Books, c2012.
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