Ron Currie

A bold and arresting story about the impossibility of love and the inevitability of grief by the acclaimed author of "Everything Matters!" Ron Currie, Jr.'s first two works of fiction, "God Is Dead" and "Everything Matters!," dazzled readers and critics alike with their audacity, originality, and psychological insight. Hailed by the "New York Times"'s Janet Maslin as a "startlingly talented writer," Currie once again moves and provokes us with his latest genre-bending novel, one that asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths. The protagonist of "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles" is named Ron Currie, Jr., and as you'd expect, he's a lot like the guy who wrote the book. Both of them are writers; both of their fathers are dead; both are deeply in love with women whose beauty and allure are matched only by their elusiveness. When Currie the character travels to a small Caribbean island to begin a new book about the woman he loves, he inadvertently fakes his own death, which turns out to be the best career move he's ever made-until he learns that the one thing that the world will not forgive is having been told a deeply satisfying lie.

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does

A tour de forceGuardianA bloody yet surprisingly warm-hearted spin on The Godfather. Great stuffThe Times, Best Thrillers of 2025 Babs Dionne, doting grandmother and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into its borders with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a former soldier struggling with addiction.When a drug cartel discovers that its numbers are down in the area, they send a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babss youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesnt seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babss wrath...

Its late summer 1984, and Babs Dionnes hometown of Waterville, Maine is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbour against neighbour, leaving everyone broke and exhausted. As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canadas decline. Shes sworn off violence since killing a man when she was a teenager, and has stuck to this vow even as its become clear that only violence can save their community. When Babs best friend Rita returns home after five years away, she is shocked by the state of things. And as the strike comes to a head, Rita notices something else: the men may be broken, but the women are furious, ready to do whatever necessary to take back Little Canada. They just need Babs to be the fearless woman who emerged from the woods fifteen years ago, drenched in blood. They need Babs to face what she already knows: that the only way to fix things is to assume control. Completely. Mercilessly.

Dios se aloja en el cuerpo de una joven en Sudán. Al morir la mujer su cadáver es devorado por unos perros y Dios también fallece. Ante la dura realidad que supone la ausencia de un ser superior, el mundo sufre una transformacion inevitable. En un electrizante debut en el que mezcla con fluidez el humor con los grandes interrogantes sobre la muerte, la etica y las debilidades humanas, Ron Currie coloca un espejo distorsionado ante el mundo de nuestro tiempo.Fue elegido Libro Destacado del año por los periodicos San Francisco Chronicle y Richmond Post Dispatch y fue galardonado con los premios Young Lions Fiction Award de la Biblioteca Publica de Nueva York y el Addison M. Metcalf Award de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras.Corrosivamente divertida... ingeniosa y absorbente por igual. Currie mantiene el impulso como todo un experto. Kirkus Review

Segunda novela del autor de Dios ha muerto, considerado por la crítica como «una nueva estrella de la ficción literaria.»The Boston Globe Desde su nacimiento, el súper genio Junior Thibodeaux escucha