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The millennium is drawing to a close. Pratt, a young Floridian who's just finished a prison sentence he both did and didn't deserve, is looking to start a new life. But will he be able to shake his shady past? Brimming with tension, action, wry dialogue, and unexpected pathos, Penalties of June is John Brandon's sixth book.
About the author
John Brandon has published five previous books with McSweeney's--the novels
Arkansas,
Citrus County,
A Million Heavens, and
Ivory Shoals, and the story collection
Further Joy.
Arkansas was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, and John Malkovich.
Citrus County was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and was reviewed on the cover of
the New York Times Book Review.
Brandon has been awarded the Grisham Fellowship at Ole Miss and the Tickner Fellowship at Gilman School in Baltimore, and he has received a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in
ESPN the Magazine,
Oxford American,
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern,
Mississippi Review,
Subtropics,
Chattahoochee Review,
Hotel Amerika, and other publications, and he has written about college football for
GQ.com and
Grantland. He was born in Florida and now resides in Minnesota, where he teaches at Hamline University in St. Paul.
