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Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives - by Brad Watson (Paperback)

Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives - by  Brad Watson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In his first collection of stories since the celebrated, award-winning "Last Days of the Dog-Men," Watson offers these dark and brilliant tales that capture the strangeness of human--and almost-human--life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In this, his first collection of stories since his celebrated, award-winning <em>Last Days of the Dog-Men</em>, Brad Watson takes us even deeper into the riotous, appalling, and mournful oddity of human beings.<br /><br /> In prose so perfectly pitched as to suggest some celestial harmony, he writes about every kind of domestic discord: unruly or distant children, alienated spouses, domestic abuse, loneliness, death, divorce. In his masterful title novella, a freshly married teenaged couple are visited by an unusual pair of inmates from a nearby insane asylum--and find out exactly how mismatched they really are.<br /><br /> With exquisite tenderness, Watson relates the brutality of both nature and human nature. There's no question about it. Brad Watson writes so well--with such an all-seeing, six-dimensional view of human hopes, inadequacies, and rare grace--that he must be an extraterrestrial.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Consistently delivers that elusive element great Southern writers have always brought to the table--a delicious sense of the unexpected.-- "Kirkus Reviews"<br><br>Essential reading and highly recommended.-- "Library Journal"<br><br>Powerful stories.-- "Booklist"<br><br>Watson is a master at hairpin plot turns, and his characters come alive on the page.-- "Publishers Weekly"<br><br>Precise, surprising . . . gorgeously turned sentences.--Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness<br>

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