Sam Savage

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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Set in the conflicted eighties, the novel recounts the intertwined journeys of self discovery of preteen Effie O'Reilly and her lonely, loving mother Janet. A single mom and former flower-child, Janet has fought her way up from the precarious counter...

• Apr-2006
• / Fantasy
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"I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but ev...

• Sep-2009
• / Literary
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The tragicomic tale of a frustrated writer angry at the world: “Scathingly funny.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked i...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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A widow, aging and alone, tells her side of the story in this “hilarious, poetic, and heartbreaking” meditation on memory (Hazel & Wren). Tasked with writing the preface to a reissue of her late husband’s long-out-of-print novel, Edna als...

• Feb-2013
• / Literary
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"Sam Savage [creates] some of the most original, unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. . . . Readers are left with a voice so strong that Savage is able to derive significance from these events by sheer literary force."--Kevin Larimer, Po...

• Nov-2014
• / Psychological Suspense
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A slim but powerful poetic novel that tells the expansive story of a Southern woman’s memories of her mother and a vanishing world. It Will End With Us is Sam Savage’s latest deep dive into the mind and voice of a character, and his most persona...

• Jan-2019
• / Literary
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Piquant, elegiac, surreal short portraits of animals, human and otherwise, sketching a vision of life as a measure of loss.Sam Savage’s final book is a collection of stripped down visitations, flash fictions of smoke breaks and long drives and frie...