{"product_id":"fat-man-and-little-boy-isbn-9781936787203","title":"Fat Man and Little Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo bombs over Japan. Two shells. One called Little Boy, one called Fat Man. Three days apart. The one implicit in the other. Brothers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e's best independent books of 2014, and winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this striking debut novel, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan are personified as Fat Man and Little Boy. This small measure of humanity is a cruelty the bombs must suffer. Given life from death, the brothers' journey is one of surreal and unsettling discovery, transforming these symbols of mass destruction into beacons of longing and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Impressive. . . The novel straddles a hybrid genre of historical magical realism.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Japan Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Meginnis's talent is his ability to make the reader feel empathy for souls who killed so many. . . Many pages in this novel feel like engravings . . . Meginnis has written one of the best, most natural novels about the atomic bombs.\" —Nick Ripatrazone, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] imaginative debut. . . Meginnis' story is both surprising and incisive.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\"Impressive. . . The novel straddles a hybrid genre of historical magical realism.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Japan Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Meginnis's talent is his ability to make the reader feel empathy for souls who killed so many. . . Many pages in this novel feel like engravings . . . Meginnis has written one of the best, most natural novels about the atomic bombs.\" —Nick Ripatrazone, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] imaginative debut. . . Meginnis' story is both surprising and incisive.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of \"the year's most impressive debut novelists\" by the \u003ci\u003e2014 Brooklyn Book Festival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An imaginative and surprisingly intimate look at the consequences of our actions and the costs of war.\" —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In his inventive and fabulist debut novel \u003ci\u003eFat Man and Little Boy\u003c\/i\u003e Mike Meginnis lends a surprisingly human dimension to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II.\" —\u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Throughout \u003ci\u003eFat Man and Little Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, Meginnis's language is luminous and disarmingly spare, whether he is invoking a naturalist moment or a fantastical metamorphosis.\" —\u003ci\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beguiling, strange, and strangely lovely, \u003ci\u003eFat Man and Little Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply sorrowful yet mysteriously empowering debut.\"—Patrick deWitt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Only someone with the deftness of heart of a writer like Mike Meginnis could redefine the war novel into something like \u003ci\u003eFat Man and Little Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, a book which translates our basic world of never–ending terror into a highly nuanced and inventive diorama available absolutely nowhere else.\"—Blake Butler, author of \u003ci\u003eScorch Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThere is No Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mike Meginnis is my favorite kind of writer—extraordinarily inventive, formally curious, profoundly moving—and his \u003ci\u003eFat Man and Little Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a debut of impressive ambition, a reinvention of the historical novel, an existential thriller powered by the booming engines of history, the atom, the human heart.\" —Matt Bell, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eFat Man and Little Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, Mike Meginnis takes the mother of all atrocities and makes it strange, sizable, turns it so sideways that we're forced to notice, to take heed. This alone is an achievement, but it's the way he does it that dazzles—with gorgeous, careful prose that gives us human failings and a desperate longing for connection so vividly rendered that we have no choice but drink it in, to reckon once again with this disaster in our own time and way.\"—Amber Sparks, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Desert Places\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMay We Shed These Human Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Meginnis\u003c\/b\u003e was named one of \"the year's most impressive debut novelists\" by the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival. He has published stories in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories 2012\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Collagist, PANK\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. He contributes regularly to \u003ci\u003eHTML Giant\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKill Screen\u003c\/i\u003e, and plays collaborative text adventures at exitsare.com. He earned his MFA at New Mexico State University, where he served as a managing editor of Puerto del Sol for two years. He now lives and works in Iowa City, where he operates Uncanny Valley Press with his wife, Tracy Rae Bowling. He has never seen the ocean.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302491148517,"sku":"NP9781936787203","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781936787203.jpg?v=1767726761","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fat-man-and-little-boy-isbn-9781936787203","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}