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An amazingly unique and firmly curated assortment of tales from the prize-winning writer of Every Misplaced Nation and Afterlands. It is extremely simple to take Al Purdy's declaration that Steven Heighton--famous for his design, chance-taking, perception and variety--"is among the greatest writers of his generation, perhaps the best." The Dead Are Far More Noticeable shows his talents at writing fiction that doesn't compromise comedy, detail and feeling for the sake of brevity. These 11 finely-crafted and exceptionally shifting tales encapsulate extremely divergent styles of loss and love, containment and omission. In the title tale, a parks & rec employee encounters an attacker who not depart the altercation unchanged. A medical investigator and his claustrophobic girlfriend are secured in the trunk of the vehicle following a failed carjacking (the crook can not travel standard).