Kevin Wilson, Author . Harper Perennial $13.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-157902-8
Wilson's captivating debut collection paints an everyday world filled with characters obsessed by weird impulses. Whether it's Guster, the narrator of “The Shooting Man,” who goes to great lengths to discover the secret of a...
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Kevin Wilson. Ecco, $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-157903-5
Wilson's bizarre, mirthful debut novel (after his collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth) traces the genesis of the Fang family, art world darlings who make "strange and memorable things." That is, they instigate and record public chaos....
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Kevin Wilson. Ecco, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-245032-6
The author of The Family Fang invents another unusual family structure for his sweet and thoroughly satisfying second novel. When bright high school senior Izzy Poole, whose mother has died and whose alcoholic father ignores her, discovers that she...
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Kevin Wilson. Pegasus, $29.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-68177-880-8
In this meticulously researched work, British journalist Wilson (Blood and Fears) lays out an exacting reconstruction of the aerial campaign of 1943, in which the Allies took “war home to the enemy as never before in the history of Germany or the...
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Kevin Wilson. Pegasus, $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-64313-006-4
This scrupulously researched account of the final stages of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command’s campaign against Nazi Germany draws heavily on accounts from the men who were part of the waning days of the air war, offering a grim portrait of the...
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Kevin Wilson. Ecco, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-291346-3
Wilson (Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine) turns a bizarre premise into a beguiling novel about unexpected motherhood. When aimless, low-achieving 28-year-old Lillian Breaker receives a mysterious invitation from Madison Roberts, her former roommate at a...
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Kevin Wilson. Ecco, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-291350-0
Wilson (Nothing to See Here) spins a delightful story of two aspiring artists in small-town Tennessee. It’s 1996 when Frankie Bulger, an outcast who dreams of becoming a writer, meets Zeke, also 16, who is new to town. Together they make a poster...
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Kevin Wilson. Ecco, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-245052-4
In the world of Wilson’s darkly funny short stories, children and deer die, and unhappy, helpless people drink and do irresponsible things. Wilson (Perfect Little World) shows people managing as best they can: trying to survive video game zombies...
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