We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories

About this book

Imaginative gripping stories and a funny poignant novella set in Maine after the 2000 presidential election make up this exciting literary debut. Owen King is a writer interested in the choices we make when were most conflicted. A young husband must decide whether or not to commit a ghoulish crime; a baseball player in a fantastic 1930s Coney Island is assailed by the guilt of an illicit romance; a nineteenth-century itinerant dentist finds himself snowed in with a group of trappers for a long evening of primitive surgery and laughing gas reveries. Whether theyre set in the past or the present tinged with the macabre the solemn or the absurd all of the stories in this collection carry the weight of real emotion and revelation and showcase Kings impressive versatility. In his novella King tells the story of George the teenage son of a single mother and the only grandson of a family of union organizers in Maine. Georges grandfather Henry obsessed with the outcome of the 2000 election has planted a giant billboard of homage to Al Gore in his front yard that he suspects has been defaced by the paperboy now a sworn enemy. Meanwhile Georges mother is about to marry Dr. Vic who besides being possessed of an almost royal obliviousness may even have voted for George W. Bush. George is a nervous accomplice to his grandfathers increasingly unhinged behavior and a righteous adversary at war with his mother over her marriage. Georges struggle is a funny and moving parallel for our times: How will we fight? All together or all alone? Funny insightful and always entertaining Were All in This Together launches the career of an extraordinarily talented writer.