Adam O'Fallon Price launches OBJECTS OF DESIRE, with Melissa Faliveno
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Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, selected by Alexandra Kleeman, Adam O’Fallon Price’s unflinchingly honest and deliciously existential stories explore the ways our deepest hunger teases us toward both our best selves and endings we should have avoided.
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Objects of Desire, Price's debut short story collection, is filled with people driven by restless longings and unattainable desires—pushed to act by needs only half-understood—all the while picking up unintended bedfellows and conspirators: A resentful brother grapples with the responsibility of bone marrow donation for his dying sibling. A down-on-his-luck artist chases his dog through a cornfield and into the home of dangerous strangers. A college women's soccer goalie takes her pain out on her opponents, as she struggles to process her childhood and forgive her mother.
Price shows us how the aching, often desperate, pull of wanting can unsettle our lives. The characters in this collection are consistently reaching for something more, only to miss the mark in quiet but irreversible ways.
Adam O’Fallon Price is the author of two novels, The Grand Tour (Doubleday, 2016) and The Hotel Neversink (Tin House Books, 2019), which won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and teaches fiction writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Flyleaf will offer seating for up to 120 in-person guests, with priority access given to folks who purchase the book. Please indicate in the "Customer Comments" field (at checkout) if you’d like 1-2 seats held for you at the event!
If you do not plan to attend the event but would like a copy of the book signed for pickup or shipping, please use the comments field at checkout to specify your personalization preference (to your name, to another name, or just the author's signature).
Objects of Desire, Price's debut short story collection, is filled with people driven by restless longings and unattainable desires—pushed to act by needs only half-understood—all the while picking up unintended bedfellows and conspirators: A resentful brother grapples with the responsibility of bone marrow donation for his dying sibling. A down-on-his-luck artist chases his dog through a cornfield and into the home of dangerous strangers. A college women's soccer goalie takes her pain out on her opponents, as she struggles to process her childhood and forgive her mother.
Price shows us how the aching, often desperate, pull of wanting can unsettle our lives. The characters in this collection are consistently reaching for something more, only to miss the mark in quiet but irreversible ways.
Adam O’Fallon Price is the author of two novels, The Grand Tour (Doubleday, 2016) and The Hotel Neversink (Tin House Books, 2019), which won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and teaches fiction writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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