Synopsis:

Now in paperback, Eric Puchner’s celebrated debut collection, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, established him as one of our most brilliant and promising new literary voices. Writing from an impressive range of perspectives—men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists—Puchner deftly exposes the dark, tender undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a dehumanizing world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, transcendent, sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these stories make up an extraordinary and strikingly original story collection.

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Topics/Categories:

Short Stories

Type of Work:

Short Story Collection

Publishers:

Scribner

Awards:

Finalist for California Book Award (First Fiction) Finalist for New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Joseph Henry Jackson Award

Purchase From:

Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Powell's

Original Publish Date:

November 29, 2007

Formats and associated ISBNs:

978-0-7432-7047-2 0-7432-7047-9

Reading Guides:

http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=25&pid=502615&agid=8

Formats:

Hardcover Paperback

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