Paul Griner \'s Hurry Please I Want to Know takes the reader on a sweeping tour of America--from Iraqi soldiers to prison telemarketers, from famous cartoonists to bone procurers, from missing persons to the resurrected dead--the real, the surreal, and everything in-between.
He\'s a Professor at the University of Louisville..
His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Playboy, One Story, Tin House, Narrative, and Zoetrope , among others.
His next two books, the novels Collectors , and The German Woman have been published in half a dozen languages.
About author(s): Paul Griner : Paul Griner \'s first book, the story collection Follow Me , was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
He teaches at the University of Louisville.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares , Playboy , One Story , Tin House , Narrative , and Zoetrope , among others.
His next two books, the novels Collectors and The German Woman , have been published in half a dozen languages.
Paul Griner \'s first book, the story collection Follow Me , was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
Grieving siblings wait to inherit one of their father\'s physical features after his death.
A cartoonist\'s daughter waits each morning to see how her father\'s mood dictates how he will draw her face.
A low-ranking soldier is forced to milk a cow within enemy range.
They take your breath away!--Bobbie Ann Mason, author of The Girl in the Blue Beret and In Country A stylized and otherworldly short story collection filled with sidelined characters placed at center stage.
The stories are sometimes surreal, but convincing all the same.
The writing is careful, precise, shocking--stylistically brilliant.
Griner seems to Know everybody\'s secrets, and this astonishing collection sets out to reveal them.--Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Stay Awake Paul Griner finds surprising and inventive ways to write about a wide range of sometimes uncomfortable--but always interesting--situations.
Paul Griner \'s Hurry Please I Want to Know takes the reader on a sweeping tour of America--from Iraqi soldiers to prison telemarketers, from famous cartoonists to bone procurers, from missing persons to the resurrected dead--the real, the surreal, and everything in-between
