{"product_id":"9781938103650","title":"Any Deadly Thing","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the critical success of his debut collection, \u003ci\u003eAll Over\u003c\/i\u003e, and of his debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePacazo\u003c\/i\u003e, Roy Kesey now brings us a new gathering of short stories, \u003ci\u003eAny Deadly Thing\u003c\/i\u003e. These stories first appeared in magazines including \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, Subtropics, Ninth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been widely anthologized; among them are winners of a Pushcart Prize special mention, an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review's\u003c\/i\u003e Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction. With story locales ranging across the Americas to Europe and Asia, Kesey once again makes the full strange world his stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \"Perfect, masterful portraits of an international cross-section of wise, broken souls--hopeful, brutal, funny as hell, and heart-crushing, every last one.\" —Elizabeth Crane, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Only Know So Much\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roy Kesey is one of my favorite contemporary writers, and \u003ci\u003eAny Deadly Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is another triumph. These stories, reminiscent of William Gass in the remarkable way they combine a virtuoso playfulness and wit with an atmosphere of grimness and grief and heartbreak, range the world over for their brilliantly realized locales, but they share a deeper setting in what Gass calls 'the only holiness we have,' human consciousness. Kesey demonstrates once again that he is a spectacularly deft and empathetic priest of that creed, which is the only one for me.\" —Michael Griffith, author of \u003ci\u003eTrophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164000633072,"sku":"9781938103650","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938103650_p0.jpg?v=1763663100","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938103650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}