Gates of Eden: Stories

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Harper Collins, Nov 11, 2008 - Fiction - 272 pages

In Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories—from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife, alarming in that it almost makes sense.

 

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DESTINY
THE OLD COUNTRY 31
COSA MINAPOLIDAN 50
HECTOR BERLIOZ PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 68
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO ELECTRIC LADYLAND 96
AMORTYSTORY 112
THE BOYS 134
JOHNNIE GABOTZ 148
KILLED PHIL SHAPIRO 173
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Ethan Coen and his brother, Joel Coen, are multiple Oscar-winning American filmmakers who have written and directed a number of acclaimed motion pictures, including Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Fargo, and the 2007 Best Picture Academy Award winner, No Country for Old Men.

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