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The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men

Adam Prince

Publication Date: June 19, 2012

Description

Adam Prince’s highly anticipated debut, The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, is a seduction in its own right, a striptease that peels all the way down to the soul. Men attempt to negotiate between their baroque imaginations and the realities of their actual lives in a dark, comic, nuanced, sexed-up collection of stories that might be offensive if it didn’t feel so true.

“The stories feature meth users and junior-high math teachers, old and young, dismal-apartment-poor and McMansion-rich,” writes Michael Ray Taylor in a recent review. “But at their core, each of the protagonists desperately asks the same question as Jim, the narrator’s friend in a surprisingly disturbing story called ‘No Women Tonight’ that is barely 300 words long: ‘We’re men, aren’t we?'”

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Praise

To read The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men is to know the power and sweep of what short stories can do…Prince is a profoundly gifted and muscular writer, a writer who understands the intimacy of violence and the violence of intimacy, a writer you read again and again and again.

-Bret Anthony Johnston

Women can learn more from these stories than from thousands of issues of Cosmopolitan.

-Ellen Gilchrist

These stories scared the hell out of me.

-Brad Watson

…dangerous as a knife fight.

-Michael Knight

About the Author

Adam Prince

Recipient of the 2021 William Peden Prize in fiction, Adam Prince earned his B.A. from Vassar College, his M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in The Missouri ReviewThe Southern ReviewNarrative Magazine, and Sewanee Review among others. Bret Anthony Johnston described his short story collection, The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men as an example of “the power and sweep of what short stories can do.” His novel-in-progress earned him a 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Currently, he serves as a Visiting Writer for the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama and is a freelance editor. See adamprinceauthor.com for more.

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