Bøger af Josh Russell

The innovative and dazzling short stories collected in Josh Russell's King of the Animals explore love and heartbreak, growing up and growing old, cities and suburbs, the fantastic and the everyday.

Set against a backdrop of a nation exhausted by war, in a decadent city that for years has been denied its butter, sugar, and Mardi Gras, My Bright Midnight is a novel about the complications of loyalties to country, to friends, and to those we love.

In this "luminously haunting" ("Entertainment Weekly") portrait of decadence, Claude Marchand becomes hopeless entangled with both a voodoo-adept mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family.

Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentags early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travelsNashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraskathe savages who captivate herlibrarians, grad students, professors, her babyand the redemption she earns.Josh Russell's previous novels are Yellow Jack and My Bright Midnight. An Illinois nativeborn in Carbondale, raised in Normalhe now lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and daughter.