Soft Thunder

A Short Story

by Adam Wilson

On Sale: 01/28/2014

Soft Thunder

A Short Story

by Adam Wilson

On Sale: 01/28/2014

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About the Book

An excerpt from Adam Wilson's debut short story collection, What's Important Is Feeling, which humorously pinpoints our most desperate moments of longing—sexual and otherwise. "Soft Thunder" is a short story about the members of a high school garage band who fall for the same girl and then keep falling.

The twelve stories in What's Important is Feeling follow the through-line of contemporary American coming-of-age: from the ravings of teenage lust, to the soul-deep debauchery of college, and to the stunning loneliness of de facto adulthood—in lovably demented yet incisive prose.

Critical Praise

“The stories in Adam Wilson’s What’s Important Is Feeling blend humor with emotion.” — Vanity Fair

“Adam Wilson is one of our best young writers.” — Flavorwire

“This book will bring you back to the wandering, blurred-together days of your early twenties, or, if you’re a younger person with creative aspirations, remind you of your very real present.” — GQ.com

“With its tales of young men and women who can’t quite grow-up, is about addiction, fear, sickness, self-doubt, family and love. But it asks us to respect its dark and damaged characters and to come feel what they feel, even if it’s for just a moment in time.” — ZYZZYVA

“Getting laughs and pathos from the same work of fiction is a hard thing to do. Adam Wilson’s previous book, Flatscreen, did so regularly. . . . As good as that book was, his new collection What’s Important is Feeling, is even better.” — VOL. 1. BROOKLYN

“Adam Wilson is a writer on the rise.” — Buzzfeed

“[A] testosterone- and coke-fueled collection. . . . Darkly funny.” — Entertainment Weekly

“Adam Wilson can write. . . and he does so with a certain authenticity and humor that I rarely see. . . . If you enjoy the cohesive element in collections, then I can’t recommend this book enough.” — LITREACTOR.COM

“Those who like to sympathize or psychoanalyze should find what they’re looking for in What’s Important is Feeling: Stories. Wilson’s characters might be one, probably two, cards short of a full deck, but they are inarguably funny.” — VOX Magazine

“Adam Wilson’s fierce tales of botched dreams, conflicted ambitions and naïve missteps make for a millennial Winesburg, Ohio, capturing all the idealism and cynicism of young cohorts facing tough realities.” — B&N Review

“This book is a joy ride . . . The buoyant comedy and insight of Wilson’s prose carries these stories farther and farther past taboo, into sensitive and complicated territory.” — New York Times Book Review

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780062342652
  • ISBN 10: 0062342657
  • Imprint: Harper Perennial
  • On Sale: 01/28/2014
  • List Price:4.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : FICTION / Coming of Age
  • BISAC2 : FICTION / Literary
  • BISAC3 : FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

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