Acid

A collection of prize-winning short stories from the author of The Family Corleone. Whether writing about a 22-year-old Wisconsin boy in London who’s having misgivings about becoming a drug smuggler, or an aging actor trying to seduce his friend’s wife, Falco’s stories are always interested in the choices his characters make and in the inevitable consequences of those choices.

A collection of prize-winning short stories from the author of The Family Corleone. Whether writing about a 22-year-old Wisconsin boy in London who’s having misgivings about becoming a drug smuggler, or an aging actor trying to seduce his friend’s wife, Falco’s stories are always interested in the choices his characters make and in the inevitable consequences of those choices. The stories in Acid were first published in The Atlantic Monthly, The Best American Short Stories, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares and other leading American literary journals; and the collection won The Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame, and was a finalist for The Patterson Prize.

Ed Falco is the recipient of many awards and prizes for his writing, including an NEA fellowship in fiction, The Robert Penn Warren Prize from the Southern Review, a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize from The Virginia Quarterly Review. His novel, The Family Corleone, a prequel to The Godfather, was a New York Times Best Seller, and the audio version, read by Bobby Cannavale, was ranked among the top five audio books of 2012 by The Washington Post. Acid, his short story collection, was the winner of Richard Sullivan Prize and a finalist for the Patterson Prize.