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Fortune Smiles: Stories
  • Published: 28 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784160463
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

Fortune Smiles: Stories

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27 Aug 2015
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28 Nov 2016
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2015: By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 for his novel THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award 2014 - a major story collection.

For fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr


WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD 2014

By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr.

'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times
'Ironic, witty, super-intelligent' - The Times

'Terrific. Shows exactly why Johnson is rated as one of the hottest American writers of his generation' Mail on Sunday

Adam Johnson takes you into the minds of characters you never thought you would meet – a former Stasi prison warden in denial of his past, a refugee from North Korea unsettled by his new freedom, a UPS driver in hurricane-torn Louisiana looking for the mother of his son.

These are tales of love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. Tender, wry, utterly compelling, they show us humanity where you might least expect it.
  • Published: 28 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784160463
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Orphan Master’s Son, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Johnson’s other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. His previous books are Emporium, a short story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us. Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.
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Also by Adam Johnson

Parasites Like Us
Emporium
The Orphan Master's Son
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