A Better Angel

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2012
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With Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and The Great Night Chris Adrian announced himself as a writer of rare talent and originality. The stories in A Better Angel, various of which have appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House and McSweeney's, demonstrate more of his endless inventiveness and wit, and confirm his growing reputation as a most exciting and unusual literary voice, and a writer of heartbreaking, magical and darkly comic tales.

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With Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and The Great Night Chris Adrian announced himself as a writer of rare talent and originality. The stories in A Better Angel, various of which have appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House and McSweeney's, demonstrate more of his endless inventiveness and wit, and confirm his growing reputation as a most exciting and unusual literary voice, and a writer of heartbreaking, magical and darkly comic tales.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 07 Jun 2012
ISBN 10: 1847084982
ISBN 13: 9781847084989

Author Bio

Selected by the New Yorker as one of the 20 Under 40, Chris Adrian is the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and A Better Angel. He lives in San Francisco, where he is a Fellow in Paediatric Hematology-Oncology. He was awarded a New York Public Library Fellowship in 2011.