American Morons
World Fantasy Award nominee 2007.
From the author of the acclaimed novel The Snowman's Children and the award-winning collection The Two Sams comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales...
Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them.
In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover – and sometimes even survive – the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.
Contents:
- American Morons
- Like a Lily in a Flood
- Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air
- Safety Clowns
- Devil's Smile
- Transitway
- The Muldoon
- Story Notes
Readers also enjoyed
Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg (born 1966) is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; the novel The Book of Bunk, published in 2010 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in 2002. The Two Sams was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2003.
More books by Glen Hirshberg
