Overview
"Paul Griner's Hurry Please I Want to Know takes the reader on a sweeping tour of Americaāfrom Iraqi soldiers to prison telemarketers, from famous cartoonists to bone procurers, from missing persons to the resurrected deadāthe real, the surreal, and everything in-between. Griner seems to know everybody's secrets, and this astonishing collection sets out to reveal them."āDan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Stay Awake
"Paul Griner finds surprising and inventive ways to write about a wide range of sometimes uncomfortableābut always interestingāsituations. The writing is careful, precise, shockingāstylistically brilliant. The stories are sometimes surreal, but convincing all the same. They take your breath away!"āBobbie Ann Mason, author of The Girl in the Blue Beret and In Country
A stylized and otherworldly short story collection filled with sidelined characters placed at center stage. A low-ranking soldier is forced to milk a cow within enemy range. A cartoonist's daughter waits each morning to see how her father's mood dictates how he will draw her face. Grieving siblings wait to inherit one of their father's physical features after his death.
Paul Griner's first book, the story collection Follow Me, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. His next two books, the novels Collectors and The German Woman, have been published in half a dozen languages. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Playboy, One Story, Tin House, Narrative, and Zoetrope, among others. He teaches at the University of Louisville.
This book title, Hurry Please I Want to Know, ISBN: 9781936747955, by Paul Griner, published by Sarabande Books (May 5, 2015) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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