false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255939030m/4291946.jpg 4291946 5 Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island to 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 kid runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit, failed inventors, boozy dreamers. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut of a type of voice we have not heard before. 4339519 17 3 2009 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories total:542|5:168|4:216|3:124|2:29|1:5| 542 2139 1301 175 4 6 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 13:50:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 21:30:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 17:52:43 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 15:27:55 -0700 2009 The New Yorker ("Leopard"), and decided it must be another false prophecy of the great new debut collection. That story was fine enough, but no more than fine (enough), and I quickly forgot it, and then passe...more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 12:50:38 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 17 16:23:52 -0700 2009
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Q&A: WELLS TOWER, author of
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

By Eugenia Williamson

The name Wells Tower entered the literary lexicon in 2005 when a short story about ennui-addled Vikings appeared in The Pari...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 07:28:48 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 07:35:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 12:31:07 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 12:41:38 -0700 2009
I'd read the chapbook of "Retreat" that FSG put out when the book was given the front page of the NYTBR--loved the concept (the same story told from two different perspectives), not so much the results. But even so I was impressed enough to want ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 06:10:48 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 06:10:48 -0700 2009
"... I got to an understanding of how terrible love can be. You wish you hated those people, your wife and children, because you know the things the world will do t...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Mar 28 13:22:44 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:22:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 17:34:27 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 21:09:55 -0700 2009
So, if Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:28:15 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 17:41:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 19 10:19:22 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 10:29:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 07:57:58 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 15:06:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4291946