Books by Chris Bachelder

A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence.

In this satire of our media-saturated culture, Las Vegas is to host a spectacle - Bear v Shark II. All of America is desperate to get a ticket, but it is young Curtis Norman who, with an essay, wins a national writing contest and four tickets to the show.