Dimensions
134 x 204 x 14mm
The twelve stories in WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS FEELING follow the through-line of contemporary American coming-of-age: from the ravings of teenage lust, to the soul-deep debauchery of college, and to the stunning loneliness of de facto adulthood.
In lovably demented yet incisive prose, Wilson, fresh from the achievement of his debut novel, again delivers a "narrative of wayward youth for our beguiled new century" (BookForum).
In "Soft Thunder," the members of a high school garage band fall for the same girl and then keep falling.
In "The Porchies," students on summer break struggle to escape the strange gravity of an off-campus house.
And in the title story, selected for Best American Short Stories 2012, the success of a Texan film shoot, in a turn worthy of Nathaniel West, depends on the performance of a cat. WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS FEELING marks the latest from a young literary writer "[whose] prose is original and arresting ... [and] approaches, in his loftier moments, the tortured grace of George Saunders" (Daily Beast).
