The Uninnocent
Stories
by Bradford Morrow
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Pub Date Dec 13 2011 | Archive Date Feb 11 2013
Open Road | Pegasus Books
Description
"The Unninocent is a masterpiece of empathy and of storytelling. Even if this is the first time reading Morrow, you'll feel like you've been waiting your whole lifetime for this dark bouquet to appear. I love this chapel of unholy stories with their charming, monstrous, wholly sympathetic characters."-Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
Bradford Morrow's stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes and have given him a devoted following. Now gathered here for the first time is a collection of his finest, gothic tales.
A young man whose childhood hobby of collecting sea shells and birds' nests takes a sinister turn when he becomes obsessed with acquiring his brother's girlfriend, in "The Hoarder" (selected as one of the Best American Noir Stories of the Century). An archeologist summoned to attend his beloved sister's funeral is astonished to discover it is not she who has died, but someone much closer to him, in "Gardener of Heart." A blind motivational speaker has a crisis of faith when he suddenly regains his sight, only to discover life was better lived in the dark, in "Amazing Grace."
In all of these stories, the reader will be delighted to find himself enthralled and captivated by one of the most potent voices in contemporary American fiction.
Bradford Morrow is the author of six novels, including The Diviner's Tale, Giovanni's Gift, and Trinity Fields,and co-edited with David Shields The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death. The recipient of numerous awards, he founded and edits the literary journal Conjunctions and is a professor of literature at Bard College. He lives in New York City.
Advance Praise
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BRADFORD MORROW'S THE UNINNOCENT
The Uninnocent is a masterpiece of empathy and of storytelling. I love this chapel of unholy stories with their charming, monstrous, wholly sympathetic characters. -Karen Russell
I love these stories and could hardly stop reading. I did, because it takes a while to assimilate the moral lessons these characters might or might not register, themselves. Also, because sometimes I was laughing too much to continue. Like the gems they are, they're bright, multi-faceted, and catch the sun - which often shines on a very dark world. Impressive. -Ann Beattie
To read The Uninnocent is to be plunged into a world that is elegant and chilling and deeply disturbing - imagine a Hitchcock classic penned by Nabokov. Bradford Morrow is a great American writer, and The Uninnocent is a dark masterpiece. -Elizabeth Hand
The Uninnocent is a major accomplishment, satisfying and unsettling, beautiful and haunting. I can't think of another recent collection of short fiction that offers up such rich, layered, provocative mysteries. -Joanna Scott
Bradford Morrow creates beautifully dark and soulfully intimate stories in his first collection, featuring characters who, though hardly citizens of virtue, reveal their true colors with little remorse. Morrow's stories are hauntingly honest and linger in the consciousness. -Publishers Weekly (starred Pick of the Week)
In The Uninnocent, acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow shows off his dazzling short-story chops. The results are spellbinding, unsettling: as knowing, wakeful, and thorny as the title. Every writer of prose fiction should be as courageous, as open to the unknown, as Morrow reveals himself to be in this collection. -Peter Straub
Bradford Morrow alchemically merges his characters with luxuriant images of nature to yield dramas about the varieties of love and its mysteries. The Uninnocent is a profound, quietly passionate, beautiful book, rare in its wisdom, captivating in its telling. -Frederic Tuten
There has never been a story by Bradford Morrow that I haven't read at a single sitting-fascinated, thrilled, at times a bit breathless. There is a subterranean air about his fiction that pulls the reader down, as if into a vertiginous whirlpool. If you read just a single story by Bradford Morrow, you will be drawn inexorably into his gravitational pull. -Joyce Carol Oates
Bradford Morrow gives voice to the peace at the center of the chaos all around and within us. His collection, The Uninnocent, is not only very beautiful but very important. -Robert Olen Butler
What links all these dark tales from Morrow is that the main characters live in the shadowland where normalcy and mania and at times even depravity meet. Hanging on the voices of their narrators-at once fascinating in their fixations and repelling in their twisted logic-and mixing elements of Southern gothic and noir, these powerful tales will linger in the reader's mind. -Library Journal
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