Chase Us, Sean Ennis
Chase Us, Sean Ennis
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Chase Us
Stories

Author: Sean Ennis

Narrator: Sean Ennis

Unabridged: 5 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/27/2014

Synopsis

In this beautifully imaginative collection, young people attempt to negotiate the often surreal terrain of childhood and adolescence where family, friends, clergy, and teachers often pose a threat instead of providing safe harbor. At the heart of the collection is the relationship between the meek narrator, his best friend alpha-male Clip, and the near-feral Roger but there are also agoraphobic mothers, gorgeous babysitters from New Zealand, paranoid stoned veterans, and deeply sad older sisters.Ennis has crafted modern-day captivity narratives, set not at some remote fort, but in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Using cinematic imagery and deft characterization, Ennis explores how we often feel confined and yet find ourselves in places we least expect.

About Sean Ennis

Sean Ennis has been published in Tin House, the Mississippi Review, Fifty-Two Stories, the Good Men Project, the Greensboro Review, and Best New American Voices. A recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Grant, he teaches at the University of Mississippi and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop.

Reviews

Goodreads review by M.O.

Oh, man. I loved CHASE US! This is a legitimately great and new book of stories, and I don’t mean new in that it’s hot off the presses. I mean that it uses characters and time and identity in ways that I’ve not come across in any collection since Jesus’ Son. This is not to say it’s experimental or t......more

Goodreads review by Emily

Full disclosure: I was supposed to receive Chase Us as part of Goodreads First Reads, but never actually received the book. However, I had already purchased the book when I found out that I won it—and I had already purchased it because Sean is a friend and a stand-up guy—we studied at the University......more

Goodreads review by Greg

Okay...I really don't want to come down hard on a book, especially of a young writer with a lot of imagination, but I end up just finding the book "ok". Here's what I enjoyed. There was a fairly imaginative narrator, a bit interior, and the relationships with his friends develop throughout the book.......more

Goodreads review by David

Sean Ennis's 'Chase Us' is like a funfair hall of mirrors - each story features characters with the same names living in the same Philadelphia suburb, but in each story the characters or their relationships are slightly skewed, each offering a distorted reflection of what has come before. So in one......more

Quotes

“Ennis has crafted a beautiful, hard-hitting collection.” —Publishers Weekly“Ennis’ characters are vividly drawn, and he is fearless in exploring his characters’ hidden moments of gritty truth and unease.” —Booklist

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