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Born on a Train: Thirteen Stories
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by John McManus

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Two years ago--at twenty-two--John McManus captivated writers and critics with his first story collection and became the youngest recipient of the Whiting Writers Award. Now McManus returns with a collection of stories equally piercing and visionary: stories about the young and old, compromised by circumstance and curiosity, and undergoing startling transformations. In "Eastbound," a car driven by two elderly sisters breaks down on an elevated highway: Beneath them lies the lost country of the South, overrun with concrete and shopping centers but still possessing the spectres and secrets of the past. In "Brood," a plucky young heroine moves with her mother into the home of the mother's online boyfriend: She will use the Audubon Guide to Birds, and her own wits to survive the advances of the boyfriend's teenaged son. In "Cowry," two backpackers in New Zealand race to witness the first sunrise of the twenty-first century.

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  • Title Born on a Train: Thirteen Stories
  • Author John McManus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Softcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-03-01
  • ISBN 9780312301859 / 0312301855
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.72 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002192687
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2002, Page 1723
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/24/2003, Page 52
  • Vanity Fair, 03/01/2003, Page 134

About the author

John McManus's stories have appeared in the Oxford American, Tin House, and Ploughshares. He was raised in Blount County, Tennessee, and now lives in Austin, Texas.

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