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    Love and Other Wounds: Stories

    By Jordan Harper

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human heart.

    A man runs away from his grave and into a maelstrom of bullets and fire. A Hollywood fixer finds love over the corpse of a dead celebrity. A morbidly obese woman imagines a new life with the jewel thief who is scheming to rob the store where she works. A man earns the name “Mad Dog” and lives to regret it.

    Denizens of the shadows who live outside the law—from the desolate meth labs of the Ozark Mountains to the dog-fighting rings of Detroit to the lavish Los Angeles mansions of the rich and famous—the characters in Love and Other Wounds all thirst for something seemingly just beyond their reach. Some are on the run, pursued by the law or propelled relentlessly forward by a dangerous past that is disturbingly close. Others are searching for a semblance of peace and stability, and even love, in a fractured world defined by seething violence and ruthless desperation. All are bruised, pushed to their breaking point and beyond, driven to extremes they never imagined.

    Crackling with cinematic energy, raw and disquieting yet filled with pathos and a darkly vital humor, Love and Other Wounds is an unforgettable debut from an electrifying new voice. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9780062394392
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    Love and Other Wounds: Stories
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    Jordan Harper

    Jordan Harper was born and educated in Missouri. He's worked as an ad man, a rock critic and a journalist and currently lives in Los Angeles.  He writes for shows including Gotham and was lead writer on The Mentalist.  

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    • 5/5
      Jordan Harper's Love and Other Wounds is a collection of fifteen short stories that are so good they will literally blow your mind. That's the good new. The bad news is that, if like me, you picked this up, hoping this would be like his collection American Death Songs, you will find its nearly the same collection you read two years ago with a couple of items that have appeared in Thuglit, etc. It appears that the earlier collection was self-published and this one is legitimately published. But, you know what, every single story in this collection is so good that it was worth reading again.

      Harper has captured a gritty, crime-ridden, kinda-bent, hair-raising corner of hell in these stories. So grab a few shots of your favorite whiskey and enjoy. This collection includes meth-heads in Agua Dulce, cattle stampedes, modern-day Bonnie and Clyde stories, dogfights, a mean little bar out in the Ozarks, what happens when you accept a nickname, Jamaican coke dealers and AK-47s, a redhaired gal with black leather pants and an ass like a heart turned upside down and torn in half, biker gangs, the legendary owner of Jackie Blue's, prison tats, prison yard policy, a scene out of Dog Day Afternoon, a fixer in Hollywood, overly literate undergrads in the wrong coffeeshop, stompings, stabbings, doing watchdog duty, a perfect murder, and revenge fantasies. Yes, it is violent. But, most of all, it is mad, crazy, and spiced with a touch of irony.

      Worth reading more than once. Easy to read. Hardcore, gritty, nasty, and more honest and true than you want it to be. Filled with people driven to desperate actions. By their own actions or by a world filled with circumstances and choices that just have to be made. This is high-grade octane, the good stuff.
    • 5/5
      Great gripping, fast paced read! Perfect for the beach, yet very well written. It is hard to stop reading once you start. I read more than half of it the first night. I could have finished it the second night but stoped on purpose to draw out the fun I was having reading it. I ended up finishing it on the third day I had it.
    • 5/5
      Jordan Harper is a master of the new noir. He takes you on a trip to a world most of us never see. His gritty portrait of this world is compelling taking you into the lives of meth heads, prostitutes, bikers, dog fighting, prison life, drug dealers and assorted others. His characters are well drawn and believable and his stories make you feel as if you somehow are living in them. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Very raw; this short story collection is very reminiscent of Frank Bill and other Appalachian writers. Meth heads, Aryan brothers, murder, prison tattoos, hillbillies, bar fights, and heists; these quick and dirty stories real you in instantly. There are no happy endings, only vindictive victories, revenges, or defeats. Not an uplifting read, but an engaging one that readers won't be able to stop thinking about.