A Moral Tale, and Other Moral Tales presents a twist on the classic morality play, where rewards and punishments betray the classic fairytale logic and the greatest redemption is "to thine own self be
‘Josh Emmons is the real deal: a major league prose writer who has fun in every sentence; you want to keep reading him for the pure pleasure of his company’ Jonathan Franzen Over the course of one Dec
‘A major-league prose writer who has fun in every sentence’ Jonathan Franzen ‘A clever speculative tale set against a backdrop of contemporary environmental and political threats’ The New York Times J
When the shade of a middle-aged loner is fleetingly glimpsed in unlikely places by a series of bewildered Eureka residents, each person who sees him interprets the encounters differently and experienc
In Josh Emmons's inventive and utterly engaging debut, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears -- in the ocea
One's a natural born killer—a remorseless hunter gleefully prowling the night for victims to quench an unnatural blood lust. The other's a vampire. His centuries of existence have left him w
