Aliens in the Prime of their Lives (W. W. Norton)

National Book Award finalist Brad Watson (for his first novel, The Heaven of Mercury)will be here to read from and sign his new short story collection, Aliens in the Prime of their Lives.

"Brad Watson’s stories worm their way through you. Watson’s talent is singular, truly awesome; he reminds me of Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Conner, Chris Offutt in his bravery, his unflinching willingness to look at what might set others running. And yet these are not exactly dark stories—that is part of their magic, they are infused with an uncanny beauty in which even at the most god awful moments, something is salvaged."
—A. M. Homes, author of This Book Will Save Your Life

Brad Watson teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His first collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. His first novel, The Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Hardcover)

By Brad Watson

$23.95

ISBN-13: 9780393057119
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 3/2010

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In his first collection of stories since the celebrated, award-winning "Last Days of the Dog-Men," Watson offers these dark and brilliant tales that capture the strangeness of human--and almost-human--life.

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The Heaven of Mercury (Paperback)

By Brad Watson

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780393324655
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 8/2003

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Finus Bates has loved chatty, elegant Birdie Wells ever since he saw her cartwheel naked through the woods near the backwater town of Mercury, Mississippi. With "graceful, patient, insightful and hilarious" prose ("USA Today"), Watson chronicles Finus's steadfast devotion and Mercury's evolution from a sleepy backwater to a small city.

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Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories (Paperback)

By Brad Watson

$12.95

ISBN-13: 9780393321203
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/2002

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This collection of short stories about people and their dogs--dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as the unwitting victims of human passions. Watson's prose captures the animal crannies of the human personality--yearning for freedom, mourning the loss of something wild, and drawn to human connection.

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