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In these eleven sensational tales, John McCaffrey mixes humor with heart to explore the lighter side of darker things.
Whether it be a scotch-swilling grizzly bear, a shady tombstone salesman, a fashion-challenged anti-terrorism expert, or an artist who burns his paintings as soon as they dry, McCaffrey's characters showcase the absurdity, and the marvel, of modern life.
What's Wrong With This Picture? speaks to everyone who has ever searched for...
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Like Jazz, any attempt to arrive at a precise, all-encompassing definition of the stories in Automatically Hip is probably futile. However, within these artfully-crafted, often-irreverent, and darkly humorous pieces are characters who share one consistent trait: you'll recognize them. These are folks who face struggle with a smile, and fortune with a frown. They are complicated and shallow, reactive and reflective, joyful and joyless. In short, they...
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In the tradition of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Ernest Hemingway's Men Without Women, Two Syllable Men presents the male psyche in all its fragmented glory. From William, who finds his immigrant girlfriend's English language translation notebook, and in it the words that define their growing relationship, to Steven, who is comforted whenever he spies trees or shrubs peeking out from the roofs of urban buildings, and who can't walk through the...
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