The Prince Of The World: Stories

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Six brilliant short stories, with the title story following an orphan travelling along the Mississippi, getting caught in the Starved Rock Massacre. This is followed by the story of two Iraq veterans adrift in civilian life of the Pacific Northwest. A reporter and photographer that witness the unexpected death of a Missouri Governor, and then onto Dublin following an outcast sailor in a pre-apocalyptic world. Next the infamous Manson family story through the eyes of one of its members. His last story contemplates war from a Blackwater contractor's perspective.

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With a rich blend of sardonic wit and ethical outrage, an unflinching eye for sensory nuance both grotesque and sublime, and a lucid prose that suggests a more cosmopolitan Cormac McCarthy, Howard is probably the greatest literary prophet of doom we have working.Jeanne Thornton, author ofThe Dream of Doctor Bantam

At his best, Howard can be a truly hypnotic writer ... [who] leaves the reader thirsty for his next work.Boston Globe

Literary stories exploring the dark, cruel borders of realism.Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Christopher Howard grew up in Illinois and spent a few months of an aborted Peace Corps sojourn in Mongolia in the late 1990s. His short story, "How to Make Millions in the Oil Market," published in McSweeney's, was nominated for the 2008 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Along with Jodi Picoult, he was one of two authors selected to provide a short story for the launch of Amazon Singles in January 2011.