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Welfare

Steve Anwyll

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Welfare is wholly made up of four-line paragraphs and has a cadence that is uniquely its own. A high school student leaves his parents' home to live on his own with friends and with the help of government aid. The narrator becomes your best friend on the first page.

I walk down the slight slope of their driveway. A backpack full of t-shirts and socks and underwear and books on my back. I have $50 and 2 packs of cigarettes in the pocket of my army surplus jacket. But no lighter. You can't have everything I tell myself.

Steve Anwyll lives in Canada.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Tyrant Books
  • Publish Date: Jan 8th, 2019
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.90in - 0.80lb
  • EAN: 9780999218662
  • Categories: • Literary• Coming of Age

About the Author

Anwyll, Steve: - Steve Anwyll lives in Canada and writes for Hobart. This is his first novel.

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4 years

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founder/editor/publisher of Tyrant Books “The forefront of progressive literature.” -Washington Post. (This account is no longer active. Go to @ditrapanofdn)

"Welfare, the debut novel from Steve Anwyll and one of the most recent in an ongoing hot streak from Tyrant Books..," https://t.co/rnZgoNXemC

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2 years

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back to back in the scroll @benloory and @oneloveasshole two of my favorite writers Loory's collections, Stories for Nighttime ..., and Tales of Falling and Flying are both incredible and Steve Anwyll's Welfare is incredible too https://t.co/tem2dExYvb

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"Steve Anwyll's entrancing novel about a 16-year-old on welfare surprised and moved me, made me smile and laugh a lot, and increased my appreciation for life. I recommend it and look forward to reading it again." -Tao Lin
In wakeful, rhythmic prose, Anwyll writes a mirror for our double vision and the selves we don't want ourselves to see. There's no getting out of Welfare. The voice stays in your blood. - Mila Jaroniec

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