Full name: Emporium: Stories

Author: Adam Johnson Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780142001950 0142001953

An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest-these are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay Canadian astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on the LAPD payroll, a post-apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman-each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids that parents and lovers should fill. With imaginative grace and verbal acuity, Johnson is satirical without being cold, clever without being cloying, and heartbreaking without being sentimental. He shreds the veneer of our media-saturated, self-help society, revealing the lonely isolation that binds us all together. Similar books: Barbara the Slut by Lauren Holmes Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle Half in Love by Maile Meloy Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg A Kind of Flying by Ron Carlson Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy Certain American States by Catherine Lacey Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy Trajectory by Richard Russo Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace An Actor's Life by Duncan Whitehead Selected Stories by Alice Munro Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme