Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. "The men in this collection seethe with something close to rage or desperation or both while remaining recognizably and sympathetically human, and that rare combination makes the experience of reading THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN feel as dangerous as a knife fight."—Michael Knight
"Woman can learn more from these stories than from thousands of issues of Cosmopolitan."—Ellen Gilchrist
"To read THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN is to know the power and sweep of what short stories can do. These full-bodied, full-throated stories show us men in trouble and men in love, and they show us how those are often one in the same. Prince is a profoundly gifted and muscular writer, a writer who understands the intimacy of violence and the violence of intimacy, a writer you read again and again and again."—Bret Anthony Johnston
Synopsis
A collection not only about lust and male bravado, but about the complex glories of love.
Synopsis
"'The Island of Lost Boys' is a finely written piece, notable for its acute
observation, wry wit, and delicate characterization. The latter is true of even the secondary figureseach is vividly particularbut especially of the complex central character, a risky choice of protagonist who could so easily collapse into sordid stereotype, but who is here delineated with an exacting and surprising sensitivity. The result is a quietly, almost furtively, heartbreaking story."Peter Ho Davies
In 2011, Narrative Magazine named Adam Prince one of the twenty best new writers.
About the Author
Born and raised in Southern California, Adam Prince has since lived in New York, South Korea, Arkansas, Nicaragua, and Knoxville, Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Narrative Magazine, among others. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee in May of 2012, coinciding with the publication of his first book, a collection of stories called THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN. During the 2012-2013 school year, he will serve as the Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School in Baltimore. He is married to the poet Charlotte Pence and is currently at work on a novel that takes place in Jakarta, Indonesia.