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In this striking and bleak, yet luminous debut collection, Nathan Ballingrud, winner of the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award, uses the trappings of the Gothic and the uncanny to investigate a distinctly American landscape: The loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary life.
Ballingrud's stories are love stories. They're also monster stories. Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves. Sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, brothers, or ex-wives, and sometimes they wear the faces we see in our mirrors. The people in these stories - ex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, kids seduced by extremism - are stranded by life, driven to desperate acts by love and a longing for connection. Sometimes they're ruined; sometimes redeemed. They are always recognizably, wonderfully, and terrifyingly human. Even at their most monstrous.
Genre: Fantasy
Ballingrud's stories are love stories. They're also monster stories. Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves. Sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, brothers, or ex-wives, and sometimes they wear the faces we see in our mirrors. The people in these stories - ex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, kids seduced by extremism - are stranded by life, driven to desperate acts by love and a longing for connection. Sometimes they're ruined; sometimes redeemed. They are always recognizably, wonderfully, and terrifyingly human. Even at their most monstrous.
Genre: Fantasy
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Used availability for Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters
Hardback Editions
July 2013 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
October 2020 : USA Paperback
July 2013 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
May 2019 : Audio CD
June 2016 : USA MP3 CD
September 2013 : USA Audio edition

Title: North American Lake Monsters: Stories
Author(s): Nathan Ballingrud
Publisher: Audible Studios
Availability: Amazon
September 2013 : Australia Audio edition

Title: North American Lake Monsters: Stories
Author(s): Nathan Ballingrud
Publisher: Audible Studios
Availability: Amazon AU
September 2013 : Canada Audio edition

Title: North American Lake Monsters: Stories
Author(s): Nathan Ballingrud
Publisher: Audible Studios
Availability: Amazon CA
September 2013 : UK Audio edition

Title: North American Lake Monsters: Stories
Author(s): Nathan Ballingrud
Publisher: Audible Studios
Availability: Amazon UK
Kindle Editions
October 2020 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition
June 2013 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition