by Adam Blair Prince (Author)
Men attempt to negotiate between their baroque imaginations and the realities of their actual lives in this dark, comic, nuanced, sexed-up collection. Adam Prince's debut book The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men is a seduction in its own right, a striptease that peels all the way down to the soul.
"The stories feature meth users and junior-high math teachers, old and young, dismal-apartment-poor and McMansion-rich," writes Michael Ray Taylor. "But at their core, each of the protagonists desperately asks the same question as Jim, the narrator's friend in a surprisingly disturbing story called 'No Women Tonight' that is barely 300 words long: "'We're men, aren't we?'"
Author Biography
Recipient of the 2021 William Peden Prize in fiction, Adam Prince earned his B.A. from Vassar College, his M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and Sewanee Review among others. His novel-in-progress earned him a 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Currently, he serves as a Visiting Writer for the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama and is a freelance editor. See adamprinceauthor.com for more.
Number of Pages: 218
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: May 01, 2012
