Rivals

by Shannon Burke

Author of SAFELIGHT, BLACK FLIES, and INTO THE SAVAGE COUNTRY Shannon Burke's RIVALS, set in a Chicago suburb in the late 1970s, a coming-of-age story about the children of a working class dreamer with exacting standards, their extreme sibling rivalry, and the pressures they face at home and in their rich suburban high school, to Deborah Garrison at Pantheon.

Unknown Binding

About the author

Shannon went to college at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has published four novels: Safelight, Black Flies, Into the Savage Country, and The Brother Years. He has been involved in various film and TV projects, including work on the screenplay for the film Syriana, and he is the co-creator of the Netflix series Outer Banks. From the mid to late nineties he worked as a paramedic in Harlem for the New York City Fire Department. He now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his two sons.