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“Vollmer writes with great wisdom and insight about love, sex, and loss. He is particularly adept at depicting the thrilling experience of young love. Vollmer’s narrative voice, reminiscent of T.C. Boyle, is also fully realized and very appealing-irreverent, vital, and bristling with vivid imagery and detail.” Library Journal Starred Review “Matthew Vollmer has written a book that looks like America: it’s big, funny, sad and hopeful; its ambition is to take over the world. I’m behind it one hundred per cent.” Daniel Wallace, author of Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician and Big Fish “The characters who inhabit the hilarious, heartbreaking stories in Future Missionaries of America may be desperate; yet, for all their lost innocence, they have the capacity to celebrate life’s joy and pain. At its best, Matthew Vollmer’s writing bursts with a kind of ecstatic poetry.” Stewart O’Nan, author of Snow Angels, Songs for the Missing and Poe “In prose that manages to be both precise and expansive, Matthew Vollmer tells compassionate stories of people forced to take action against difficult circumstances. This collection is bold and risky, written by a courageous new writer.” Chris Offutt, a

Author

Vollmer, Vollmer, Matthew

Publisher

London: Salt Publishing

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844714735

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Humanities

Rating

4.19 / 5 (51 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14