Prodigals: Stories
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Prodigals: Stories

Prodigals: Stories

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Greg Jackson (Author)  

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Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm forces a man and a woman, who may be his therapist, to flee New York together; the artistic ambitions of a banker are laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. Unflinching, funny and profound, Prodigals maps the degradations of contemporary life - from the deification of celebrity, to the impotence of violence, to the psychological debts of privilege, to the loss of grand narratives - with unusual insight, sincerity, and passion. It is a fiercely honest and heartfelt look at what we have become, the comedy of our foibles, and our longing for home.
GREG JACKSON has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, MacDowell Colony, and the University of Virginia's MFA program. A winner of the Balch and Henfield Prizes and a finalist for the 2014 National Magazine Award in Fiction, his short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and VQR.
  • Contributor: Greg Jackson
  • Imprint: Granta Books
  • ISBN13: 9781783782017
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x14mm
  • Packaged Weight: 173
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Release Date: 2016-09-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: GREG JACKSON has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, MacDowell Colony, and the University of Virginia's MFA program. A winner of the Balch and Henfield Prizes and a finalist for the 2014 National Magazine Award in Fiction, his short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and VQR.

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