From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the
first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter--a suite of diverse
and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all
of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that
has made him a reader favorite--now available as a special Harper
Perennial Olive Edition.
These twelve stories--originally published in Harper's, The Best
American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Playboy, and other
publications--veer from comic tales of love to social satire to
suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to
never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless
lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and
redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men
committing suicide by fishing.
We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories
from a "ridiculously talented writer" (New York Times), "one of the
freshest voices in American literature" (Dallas Morning News).
Harper Perennial Olive Editions are exclusive small-format editions of
some of our bestselling and celebrated titles, featuring beautiful and
unique hand-drawn cover illustrations. All Olive Editions are available
for a limited time only.
