Voodoo Heart
Author: Snyder, Scott
ISBN: 9780385338424
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 May 2007
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Scott Snyder's protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job- watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder's wondrous imagination there's a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing- the unlikely affair between a famous actress-in hiding after surgery-and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple's relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women's prison next door. br>br>Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.
ISBN: 9780385338424
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 May 2007
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Scott Snyder's protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job- watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder's wondrous imagination there's a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing- the unlikely affair between a famous actress-in hiding after surgery-and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple's relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women's prison next door. br>br>Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.
