Pictures of the Shark - McNeely, Thomas H
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What happens when childhood trauma haunts our lives? Set in Houston, Corpus Christi, and Austin, Pictures of the Shark, a novel-in-stories, traces the effects of the emotional bargains made in a dissolving family through the youth and early adulthood of its central character, Buddy Turner. The stories explore trauma and addiction, emotional blackmail and abuse, and moments of redemption and grace.

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What happens when childhood trauma haunts our lives? Set in Houston, Corpus Christi, and Austin, Pictures of the Shark, a novel-in-stories, traces the effects of the emotional bargains made in a dissolving family through the youth and early adulthood of its central character, Buddy Turner. The stories explore trauma and addiction, emotional blackmail and abuse, and moments of redemption and grace.
Autorenporträt
An East Side Houston native, THOMAS H. McNEELY has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Ploughshares, and many other magazines and anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books' Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He has received National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Stegner, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book, Ghost Horse, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College, Boston.