Scott O'Connor is the author of the novella Among Wolves, and the novels Untouchable and Half World. He has been awarded the B&N Discover Great New Writers Award, and his stories have been shortlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories. He has written for Fox and Universal Television, as well as The New York Times Magazine and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
"A Perfect Universe beautifully encapsulates our contemporary
world, in the miniature globe of Los Angeles. We see ourselves in
these hustlers and hopefuls, strays and survivors, characters as
complex, damaged, and determined as the city itself. This is a new
classic--not only of the mysterious, evergreen pull of the City of
Angels, but of American fiction at large." --James Frey, New York
Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright
Shiny Morning
"Scott O'Connor's riveting exploration into the hopes, losses and
triumphs of his characters plunges the reader into sprawling Los
Angeles, where the entertainment business looms like an extra moon.
A brilliant storyteller, O'Connor inhabits his characters and pulls
us in after them, exploring lives in which everything is up for
grabs and nothing is what you think." --Kit Reed, author of The
Story Until Now and Mormama
"Through a kaleidoscopic cast of characters teeming with desires,
hopes, frustrations, and regrets, the compelling stories in A
Perfect Universe excite the imagination while appealing to the
heart. Scott O'Connor's crystalline prose delivers an ambitious
range of voices and narrative structures that reflect the
bewildering complexity and quiet beauty of our modern world."
--John Pipkin, author of Woodsburner and The Blind Astronomer's
Daughter
"I sat down to read the first story in A Perfect Universe, only to
look up several hours later having read the entire book in a single
sitting. I fell in love with these characters from the first page.
The storytelling in this book--tender and attentive, starkly poetic
and always surprising--moved me at every turn."--Attica Locke,
author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Pleasantville
"The stories in A Perfect Universe describe lives torn by violence
of all kinds--physical, emotional, judicial--and they do so with
immense intelligence and heart-stopping clarity. Scott O'Connor's
vision of Los Angeles as a place both sprawling and strange, given
to both radical privacy and startling intersection, brings to mind
another one of the city's definitive portraits, Robert Altman's
Short Cuts, but has a gnostic brilliance that is entirely his
own."--Matthew Specktor, author of American Dream Machine
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