All I Have in This World

Author: Michael Parker
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

A very funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found . . . I love this book.

-Antonya Nelson, author of Bound



Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want. And after knowing each other for less than an hour, they decide to buy it together. All I Have in This World is a different kind of love story about the power of friendship.



A Springsteenian ode to the promise and heartbreak of the highway. -The New York Times



Parker's skillfully rendered story rolls like a restless, unpredictable west Texas river-calm depths here, turbulent shallows there-as Marcus and Maria communicate and lurch toward an imperfect union . . . Which feels a lot like real life. -The Denver Post



Both poetic and starkly real . . . All I Have in This World charts the emotional and geographic journey of two people trying valiantly to move forward. -The Raleigh News and Observer



A sweet, sinuous, and smart love story. -Washingtonian magazine

About Michael Parker
Michael Parker is the author of seven works of fiction, most recently the critically acclaimed novel The Watery Part of the World. His work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Oxford American, and others. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the MFA writing program at UNC-Greensboro and lives in North Carolina and Texas. His website is www.michaelfparker.com.

(BK-9781616204488)

SKU BK-9781616204488
Barcode # 9781616204488
Brand Algonquin Books
Artist / Author Michael Parker
Shipping Weight 0.3400kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.030m
Shipping Length 0.210m
Assembled Length 20.600m
Assembled Height 2.500m
Assembled Width 13.700m
Type Paperback

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