<DIV><DIV>A <I>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</I> EDITORS' CHOICE</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs.  A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his car's windshield doesn't match her own.  Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods.  A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl.  Wells Tower's version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons.  With electric prose and savage wit, <I>Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned</I> is a profound new collection of stories.</DIV></DIV>