Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn’t match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl.

In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut, announcing a voice we have not heard before.

• Author
• Wells Tower

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 256

• Publisher
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-29219-5

• EAN
• 9780374292195

• Genres
• fiction, contemporary, literature, novels, american, unfinished

• Release date
• 2009