Voodoo Heart
  • Published: 29 May 2007
  • ISBN: 9780385338424
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99

Voodoo Heart

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Scott Snyder’s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder’s wondrous imagination there’s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress—in hiding after surgery—and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple’s relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women’s prison next door.

Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.
  • Published: 29 May 2007
  • ISBN: 9780385338424
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Scott Snyder

SCOTT SNYDER has written comics for both DC and Marvel, including the bestselling series AMERICAN VAMPIRE and SWAMP THING, and is the author of the story collection Voodoo Heart (The Dial Press). He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, NYC and Columbia University. He lives on Long Island with his wife Jeanie, and his sons Jack and Emmett. He is a dedicated and un-ironic fan of Elvis Presley.

Also by Scott Snyder

Batman: The Court of Owls Saga: DC Compact Comics Edition
The Batman Who Laughs
Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52)
Justice League by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Omnibus Vol. 1
Batman Vol. 3: Death of the Family (The New 52)
Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (The New 52)
American Vampire Book One: DC Compact Comics Edition
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Praise for Voodoo Heart

"Scott Snyder's Voodoo Heart just blew me away. These dispatches from disaffected but strangely likeable American oddities have much the same effect as good American roots music: their simplicity is deceptive, their emotional power considerable...I couldn't put it down." Stephen King

"Snyder's true talent...transport(s) us to the beautiful, quiet, darkened room of the best fiction." Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book Review

"Suffused with sly humor, sympathy and high spirits, the stories in Voodoo Heart are giddy with the thrill of discovering what can be done with words, what you can make happen on the page." Francine Prose, Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Each story in Scott Snyder's Voodoo Heart is as mournful and beautiful and haunting as a Hank Williams song, or a Buster Keaton movie, or a dream you have on the edge of sleep: vivid, insistent, strange, heart-breaking all at the same time, full of odd, doomed love, and unforgettable." Elizabeth McCracken

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