From the Back Cover:
Praise for Don't Think Twice Wayne Johnson's critically acclaimed first novel about Paul Two Persons.
"Don't Think Twice is a cunningly crafted thriller, first and last; Wayne Johnson keeps his story under a taut restraint reminiscent of Hemingway and of Raymond Chandler. More than that, it's an insightful, realistic portrayal of the world of American Indians today, and delivered (unusually) without stridency or pretention."
-- Madison Smartt Bell
"An audacious debut about a decent, troubled man struggling first to escape, and then to confront, the sinister forces consuming his life . . . Johnson deftly mixes the components of a thriller with a complex character study, and Paul is a difficult, tormented figure, but also a compelling one. The language, while terse, is exact and vigorous, and the author's portrait of the embattled Chippewa is vivid and convincing as they struggle to hold on to some semblance of control over their lives and of the somber beauty of their land. . . . An original, wonderfully assured, and powerful work."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Johnson has written a book that manages to make the wide, airy spaces of the land of a thousand lakes feel claustrophobic with tension. . . . [He] gives the reader a brilliant sense of place, even as the plot tightens a noose of anxiety."
-- Library Journal
About the Author:
WAYNE JOHNSON, author of the critically acclaimed novel Don't Think Twice, grew up in the north lakes region of Minnesota and on the White Earth and Red Lake reservations. He was a Teaching-Writing Fellow of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is a recipient of the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His short fiction has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and Story, among others, and has been featured in collections including Prize Stories, The O. Henry Awards, and The Norton Anthology of Literature. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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