Objects of Desire: Stories - Paperback

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by Adam O'Fallon Price (Author)

Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, selected by Alexandra Kleeman, Adam O'Fallon Price's unflinchingly honest and deliciously existential stories explore the ways our deepest hunger teases us toward both our best selves and endings we should have avoided.

Objects of Desire, Price's debut short story collection, is filled with people driven by restless longings and unattainable desires--pushed to act by needs only half-understood--all the while picking up unintended bedfellows and conspirators: A resentful brother grapples with the responsibility of bone marrow donation for his dying sibling. A down-on-his-luck artist chases his dog through a cornfield and into the home of dangerous strangers. A college women's soccer goalie takes her pain out on her opponents, as she struggles to process her childhood and forgive her mother.

Price shows us how the aching, often desperate, pull of wanting can unsettle our lives. The characters in this collection are consistently reaching for something more, only to miss the mark in quiet but irreversible ways.

Author Biography

Adam O'Fallon Price is the author of two novels, The Grand Tour (Doubleday, 2016) and The Hotel Neversink (Tin House Books, 2019), which won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. He received an MFA from Cornell University, and his short fiction has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Born in Los Angeles, he grew up in the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and Tennessee. He now lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and teaches fiction writing at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Number of Pages: 214

Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN

Publication Date: October 06, 2026