Going Native : Library Edition

Wright, Stephen; Collyer, Will (NRT)

ISBN 10: 1549186086 / ISBN 13: 9781549186080

Published by Little Brown and Company, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Going Native : Library Edition
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1549186086
• ISBN 13: 9781549186080
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A dutiful husband and father walks out of his life and into a road trip from hell, in a novel Toni Morrison calls Astonishing and Don Delillo calls A slasher classic . . . strange, dark, and funny. Wylie Jones has a happy marriage, beautiful children, backyard barbecues in his tastefully decorated suburban house. One night he follows a sudden impulse, leaves his wife in bed and commandeers his neighbor's emerald-green Ford Galaxy 500, driving away without a second look. He sheds all traces of his old life in favor of a new name and a new life, and drives from town to town, following his deepest impulses where they lead. By turns scathing and hilarious, writing an outrageous rollercoaster of sex and violence, Stephen Wright probes the nihilistic and savage core of the American identity.

About the Authors

Stephen Wright is a Vietnam veteran, MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the author of five novels. He has received a Whiting Award in Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and has taught writing and literature at Iowa, Princeton, Brown, and The New School. He was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City.

Will Collyer, an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a film, television, and stage actor. He has starred in television shows such as Melrose Place, Charmed, CSI: Miami, and Boston Public, as well as numerous films and plays. He holds a BA in theater arts from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.