Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Signed First Edition)

Wells Tower

ISBN 10: 0374292191 / ISBN 13: 9780374292195

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2009

About this Item

FIRST EDITION. First printing. SIGNED and dated BY AUTHOR on the title page in month of publication, April 2009 (his name and date without any other writing). A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Smoke-free. Shipped in well-padded box. This book was purchased new and only opened for author signature. The book quickly went through multiple printings. This is the hard to find first printing, with the full number line to 1. Finalist, L.A. Times Book Awards, 2009, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. The book was reviewed twice in the New York Times, by Edmund White and Michiko Kakutani. Kakutani picked it as one of her ten best books of 2009. Finalist for The Story Prize. In 2010, Tower was named as one of The New Yorker magazine's best "20 under 40" fiction writers. Also, in 2010, he was presented with the Tenth Annual New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award for an American writer under 35, on the basis of this book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374292191
• ISBN 13: 9780374292195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn’t match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl.

In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut, announcing a voice we have not heard before.

About the Author

Wells Tower’s short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. He received two Pushcart Prizes and the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review. He divides his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.