{"product_id":"the-good-worlds-are-all-taken-paperback","title":"The Good Worlds Are All Taken - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Gionfriddo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA crippled musician spends a feverish night debating life and death with a series of voices real and spectral. A futuristic PR man struggles to make a star out of a feral girl with a hypnotic voice. Members of a fringe religious sect try to wring divine mercies from the intercessions of a doomed plague victim. In this debut collection, much of which comes from the pages of online culture journal \u003ci\u003eParaphilia Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, David Gionfriddo's characters hunt for status, sense and succor in a series of all-too-familiar American dystopias, and find only uncertainty, disillusionment and a nagging sense of spiritual drift. \u003ci\u003eThe Good Worlds Are All Taken\u003c\/i\u003e is, in turn, wavy funhouse mirror, Rorschach test card, and cracked crystal ball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Gionfriddo graduated from Boston College with a degree in English in 1983, and got his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1986. His debut story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Good Worlds Are All Taken\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Apophenia in 2015. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Dream of Stone: And Other Ghost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (Apophenia, 2011), \u003ci\u003eAntique Children: Revolt of the Underdog\u003c\/i\u003e (AQC Books, 2011), the online journal \u003ci\u003eParaphilia Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the defunct late-80s Boston fashion\/culture magazine \u003ci\u003eRecreational Vehicle\u003c\/i\u003e. His non-fiction writing on music, boxing and underground culture has been published in \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConflict\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChickfactor\u003c\/i\u003e, The Cyberboxingzone website, and the Boston-based alternative culture journal \u003ci\u003eVersion 90\u003c\/i\u003e, which he co-founded in 1989. In addition, song lyrics on which he has collaborated have been recorded by Ray Manzarek, Roy Rogers, Shana Morrison and Norton Buffalo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 278\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48709391679737,"sku":"9780692346419","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/aVYnpkpj3f9780692346419.webp?v=1784923765","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-good-worlds-are-all-taken-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}