What's Important Is Feeling: Stories |
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| Authors: | Wilson, Adam |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC019000, FIC043000, FIC029000 |
| ISBN: | 9780062284778, Related ISBNs: 0062284770, 9780062284778, 9780062284785 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 224, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house.
And in the title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories, two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent, hoping to come out on top—but fearing they won't.
In What's Important Is Feeling, Adam Wilson follows the through-line of contemporary coming-of-age from the ravings of teenage lust to the staggering loneliness of proto-adulthood. He navigates the tough terrain of American life with a delicate balance of comedy and compassion, lyricism and unsparing straightforwardness. Wilson's characters wander through a purgatory of yearning, hope, and grief. No one emerges unscathed.
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