Assorted Fire Events: Stories - Softcover

Means, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156013541 ISBN 13: 9780156013543

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Adept and assured, David Means's stories are as perceptive as they are provocative, skillfully and startlingly sounding the depths of human emotion.

In Assorted Fire Events we find a major talent honing his skills, a gambler willing to push the limits while, at the same time, taking great care in playing his cards.

A married man carries on an affair with a neighbor, and suddenly his mind whisks him back to his brother's drowning. A recently widowed mother must decide what to do with a video of her honeymoon love-making.

A distraught businessman goes to the railroad tracks to find some sort of comfort and perhaps peace of mind, but finds the exact opposite in a group of young, miscreant men. Sneaking into a wedding reception, a homeless man forever changes the lives of all present. Suburban sprawl leads to disastrous consequences in the Pushcart Prize-winning "What They Did."

In prose that radiates in every direction, Assorted Fire Events exposes the human condition and explores the fragility of those things that we most cherish, establishing David Means as a tremendous new presence in contemporary American literature.

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Since the publication of his first book, A Quick Kiss of Redemption, David Means's stories have appeared in Harper's, the Paris Review, Bomb, the Antioch Review, the KGB Reader, and a dozen other publications. Born and raised in Michigan, he now lives in Nyack, New York, with his wife and twins.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156013541
• ISBN 13: 9780156013543
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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