A very funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found .
I love this book.
--Antonya Nelson, author of Bound Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends.
One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want.
And after knowing each other for less than an hour, they decide to buy it together.
All I Have in This World is a different kind of love story about the power of friendship.
A Springsteenian ode to the promise and heartbreak of the highway.
--The New York Times Parker's skillfully rendered story rolls like a restless, unpredictable west Texas river--calm depths here, turbulent shallows there--as Marcus and Maria communicate and lurch toward an imperfect union .
Which feels a lot like real life.
--The Denver Post Both poetic and starkly real .
All I Have in This World charts the emotional and geographic journey of two people trying valiantly to move forward.
--The Raleigh News and Observer A sweet, sinuous, and smart love story.
--Washingtonian magazine About the Author Michael Parker is the author of six novels and two collections of stories.
His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals including Five Points, the Georgia Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Trail Runner, Runner's World and Men's Journal.
He has received fellowships in fiction from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters, and the North Carolina Award for Literature.
His work has been anthologized in the Pushcart, New Stories from the South and O.
Henry Prize Stories anthologies.
He is the Vacc Distinguished Professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and since 2009 has been on the f.
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