Victoria Patterson

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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A “wonderfully realized” story collection that “scrapes off the glitter” of posh Newport Beach, California (Publishers Weekly). Welcome to Newport Beach, California -- a community that often seems dazzling from a distance, but isn’t always ...

• Mar-2011
• / Literary
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“Patterson beautifully parses the consequences of one woman’s fall in this memorable, penetrating, fully achieved novel.” -- The New York Times Book Review Story Prize and California Book Award finalist Victoria Patterson revisits Newport Bea...

• Oct-2013
• / General Fiction
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Running so hard you think you'll choke on your next breath. Lungs burning like they're drenched in battery acid. Peripheral vision blurred by the same adrenaline that drowns out the cheers coming from the full stadium. And of course, the reporters. T...

• Aug-2015
• / Literary
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Life is pretty sweet for Even Hyde. Despite his parents' divorce in 2001, he's doing just fine, having chosen to live with his richly successful father in Newport Beach, California. When not spending ‘bonding' time with his partially absent father,...

• Jul-2018
• / General Fiction
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Victoria Patterson, whose writing Vanity Fair has called "brutal, deeply empathetic, and emotionally wrenching,"" returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver, along with the emotional depth and de...