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  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241968956
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.99

Over Our Heads




Dazzling tales of the young and befuddled, in love and in transit, from a wonderful new talent

A young man rushes to the bedside of his ex, knowing the baby she's having is not his own. Travelling colleagues experience an eerie moment of truth when a fire starts in their hotel. A misdirected parcel sets off a complex psychodrama involving two men, a woman and a dog ...

Andrew Fox's clever, witty, intense and thoroughly entertaining stories capture the passions and befuddlements of the young and rootless, equally dislocated at home and abroad. Set in America and Ireland - and, at times, in jets over the Atlantic - Over Our Heads showcases a brilliant new talent.

  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241968956
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Andrew Fox

Andrew Fox was born in 1964 and grew up in
North Miami Beach, Florida. He attended Loyola
University in New Orleans, where he studied social
work and wrote a fantasy play for visually-handi-
capped children that involved the audience rubbing
their hands on a vaseline-coated foam rubber mer-
maid's tail and sniffing spoiled sardines. He has
worked as manager of the Louisiana Commodity
Supplemental Food Program, a federally-funded
monthly nutrition program for low-income senior
citizens. In 1995, following the death of his cousin
in the French Quarter on New Year's Eve due to a
falling bullet, he helped found the New Year Coali-
tion, an advocacy group that helps educate the pub-
lic about the dangers of celebratory gunfire. Also in
1995, he joined a monthly writing workshop found-
ed by award-winning SF author George Alee
Effinger.

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Praise for Over Our Heads

An impressive and thoroughly enjoyable collection ... Fox lets his characters tramp around their worlds, searching for heaven on earth

Irish Times

The stories are wonderfully crafted and cared-for, the undertones are witty and ironic, but also serious and filled with sympathy

Colm Tóibín, Guardian

Fox is skilful at probing the bigger emotions: alienation, loss and nostalgia ... Fox knows the hallmark of a good short story: leave the reader wanting more

Alice Fishburn, Financial Times

Fox's prose is poised and confident, a well-honed tool with which to treat his delicate subject matter.

Rob Doyle, Sunday Times

The best of these stories are very good indeed ... While there are few happy souls in these arresting stories, the reader can find consolation in Fox's supple prose and frequently subtle insights

Irish Independent

Fox joins a band of new talented Irish short story writers, like Colin Barrett and Mary Costello, with this assured debut collection

RTE Guide

These are thoughtful, well-told stories that bring home how hard it can be to belong

Herald

Impressive ... First-person narrators, their voices deceptively casual and conversational, draw the unsuspecting reader in before they strike. Against a backdrop of ordinary settings and pared-down realism, the arresting images, when they come, have an explosive force

The Lady

A superb collection ... compassionate and knowing

Irish Examiner

Outstanding

Hot Press

A remarkable new talent ... He is able to tread so lightly that we only realise we have been cleverly punched in the solar plexus after we finish the last line

Dermot Bolger, Irish Mail on Sunday