John Brandon

McSweeney's Rectangulars

Citrus County (Jul-2010)
A Million Heavens (Jul-2012)

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  Appropriate Applause
  

  • May-2004
  • / General Fiction
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  The Boy at the Window
  

  • Jul-2005
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  Arkansas
  

  • Jun-2009
  • / Literary
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  “A tale of three young men who’ve taken one look at straight life and drop-kicked it . . . Picaresque, sly, bitterly funny, the novel hooks us at once.” -- San Francisco Chronicle   Met with wide acclaim, Arkansas ...

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  Citrus County
  

  • Jul-2010
  • / Literary
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  McSweeney's Rectangulars
  

  There shouldn't be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be ki...

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  A Million Heavens
  

  • Jul-2012
  • / Gothic
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  McSweeney's Rectangulars
  

  On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winter -- strangers in search of answers, a brush w...

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  Further Joy
  

  • Jun-2014
  • / General Fiction
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  In eleven expertly crafted stories, John Brandon gives us a stunning assortment of men and women at the edge of possibility -- gamblers and psychics, wanderers and priests, all of them on the verge of finding out what they can get away with, and what...

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  The Inland News
  

  • Jun-2014
  • / General Fiction
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  In eleven expertly crafted stories, John Brandon gives us a stunning assortment of men and women at the edge of possibility -- gamblers and psychics, wanderers and priests, all of them on the verge of finding out what they can get away with, and w...

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  Ivory Shoals
  

  • Jul-2021
  • / Historical
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  In the tradition of Mark Twain and Cormac McCarthy comes this distinctly American, pulse-quickening epic from the acclaimed author of Citrus County and Arkansas. “I opened John Brandon's new novel and fell hard. An adventure full of grit and wonder...

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  Solstice
  

  • Nov-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  The millennium is drawing to a close. Pratt, a young Floridian who's just finished a prison sentence he both did and didn't deserve, is looking to start a new life. But will he be able to shake his shady past? Brimming with tension, action, wry dialo...

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