{"product_id":"the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-paperback","title":"The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Blair Prince\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen attempt to negotiate between their baroque imaginations and the realities of their actual lives in this dark, comic, nuanced, sexed-up collection. Adam Prince's debut book \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a seduction in its own right, a striptease that peels all the way down to the soul. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The stories feature meth users and junior-high math teachers, old and young, dismal-apartment-poor and McMansion-rich,\" writes Michael Ray Taylor. \"But at their core, each of the protagonists desperately asks the same question as Jim, the narrator's friend in a surprisingly disturbing story called 'No Women Tonight' that is barely 300 words long: \"'We're men, aren't we?'\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecipient of the 2021 William Peden Prize in fiction, Adam Prince earned his B.A. from Vassar College, his M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e among others. His novel-in-progress earned him a 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Currently, he serves as a Visiting Writer for the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama and is a freelance editor. See adamprinceauthor.com for more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52548164813107,"sku":"9780982876664","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/8thBB9-BU69780982876664.webp?v=1784488982","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}