“NUCLEAR is a “picture of a shadow,” and the shadow is America–its dreams, its self-delusions, public and private. Sean Bernard shows he understands the story of America as well as anyone now writing. His prose is splendid, as clean as the desert wind. He is canny, wise, and heart-breaking: a major talent just beginning to be heard from.” —Tracy Daugherty, four-time winner of the Oregon Book Award and founder of the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Oregon State University. “Sean Bernard’s voice is that of a perceptive, funny friend, telling secrets about anxiety and love and the places where the two intersect.” —Scott O’Connor, author of Untouchable, winner of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Discover Award.
Author
Much of the following is true: Sean Bernard is: a cheerful sort; a member of a secret organization hatched in a southwestern city in the fall of 1993; author of the collection Desert sonorous (March 2015), winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, as well as the novel Studies in the Hereafter (August 2015), a thickly veiled novel set in heaven; a winner with a can-do attitude but an inconsistent backhand; reliant on various supplements for reasons that cannot be disclosed; the editor of Prism Review; the best durned creative writing teacher a student could ask for; wanted.
