Justin Torres
Author of We the Animals
About the Author
Image credit: Justin Torres at the 2012 National Book Festival By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21582169
Works by Justin Torres
Reverting to a Wild State {story} 6 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1980
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Baldwinsville, New York
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Education
- Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
- Occupations
- Assistant Professor, UCLA
- Awards and honors
- National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2012)
- Agent
- Jin Auh (The Wylie Agency)
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Short and Sweet (1)
"We" narration (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 4
- Also by
- 5
- Members
- 1,573
- Popularity
- #16,418
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 79
- ISBNs
- 35
- Languages
- 6
- Favorited
- 2
Sad and painful to read. Some early sections are captivating - particularly the prose describing the mother. The book loses coherence in the middle and I became uninterested in the writer's last few chapters. These chapters seem contrived to shock and I just felt irritated.The last couple of chapters were also choppy and at the end I just wanted to physically remove the book from my presence...