Eric Puchner, Author . Scribner $24 (209p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7046-5
Alienated adults and wounded children inhabit Puchner's polished debut collection, nine bittersweet stories that capture moments of truth but too often feel like neatly packaged writing workshop fiction. "Child's Play," about...
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Eric Puchner, Author . Scribner $25 (360p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7048-9
Puchner’s heartrending first novel (after the collection Music Through the Floor
) traces the gradual ruin of a family in the 1980s. By the time Warren Ziller’s car is repossessed—he tells the family it was stolen and tries to keep
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Eric Puchner. Scribner, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4780-7
Ray Bradbury meets Tom Perrotta in the new collection by Puchner (Model Home), which blends science fiction with the all-too-real suburban horrors of deadbeat dads, unsupervised teens, and the onset of mental illness. In the instant classic “Beautifu
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Eric Puchner. Doubleday, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-55066-6
In this introspective drama from Puchner (Model Home), two families’ entwined fates are set in stark relief against harsh changes to the climate in near-future Montana. It begins in summer 2004, when medical school dropout Cece Calhoun travels by...
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Eric Puchner, read by David Colacci, Tantor Media, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1652-2
Puchner's darkly comic coming-of-age tale offers a complex array of takes on 1980s California: worshipful, acidic, and all points between. Warren and Camille Ziller and their three children have moved from the Midwest to Southern California in...
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