Books by Jere Hoar

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The Hit
Emerging from sedation in the mental ward of a Southern hospital, Luke Carr struggles to make sense of what brought him to be confined in such a godforsaken place. The answer is recounted in a series of notebooks he’s written at the direction of his psychiatrist. Where Luke’s story begins is in the arms of a woman he was helpless to resist --and in the promises of the pleasures that the perfect crime can yield. But in a paranoid world such as Luke’s, there is no such thing as perfect. And where his story is headed is a spiraling nightmare of love gone wrong, of greed and betrayal, and of the darkest depths to which a human soul can fall. --jacket text, New American Library edition

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“Troubled loner plus femme fatale equals a vortex of obsession and betrayal . . .Absorbing..”
—The New York Times

“A modern classic.” --PAGES

“A searing, superior novel. Deliciously lurid and refreshingly honest.”
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Body Parts
The critically acclaimed debut short story collection by Jere Hoar appeared in 1997, and his first novel, The Hit, in 2002, but the writer was hardly new to the craft of writing. On the contrary, Hoar had taught journalism for more than three decades. He had written three television scripts for public broadcasting and published 40 or more scholarly and other magazine articles, six monographs, and dozens of short stories. Several of the latter had been anthologized.

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“A consistently keen observer, gifted at finding the sensory fragments necessary to a moment. . . ‘Ain’t he cunning,’ a character says of one of Hoar’s creations, and the same might be said of the fiction by which they both exist.” -- Miles Hedrick, New York Times

"A sharecropper's daughter in one of Hoar's stories, trying to understand her father's sturdy but futile nobility, makes a comment about his singing voice that stands just as well for Hoar's literary one. It can, she says, 'pop chilly bumps on your neck.'" -- Bill Vourvoulias, New York Newsday

"Hoar's voice is brilliant, zany, rationally off-center, and his narrative moves with a swiftness necessary to the reader's increasingly deepening involvement in his persona's quest. 'Dark Heart' commanded my attention from the outset, held me throughout, and left me feeling not a little wonder and awe when it was over." -- Gordon Weaver in awarding the Kansas Arts Council--Kansas Quarterly Prize for Short Fiction

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