Gates of Eden

<p><strong>A distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview...All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land a parallel universe similar to our own--except it's weirder funnier and better edited. -- <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>The fiction debut of one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today Ethan Coen.</strong></p><p>In <em>Gates of Eden</em> Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking twisted yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories--from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife alarming in that it almost makes sense.</p>