The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men

By Adam Prince

Book Overview

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?'"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982876661
• ISBN13: 9780982876664
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"