Ecstatic Cahoots Contributor(s): Dybek, Stuart (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374280509 ISBN-13: 9780374280505 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2013033912 |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.51" W x 8.38" (0.39 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives each tale his signature mix of characters--some almost ghostly, others vividly real--who live in worlds tinged with surreal potential. There are crazed nuns hijacking streetcars, eerie adventures across frozen ponds, and a boy who is visited by a miniature bride and groom every night in his uncle's doomsday compound. Whether they are about a simple transaction, a brave inquiry, a difficult negotiation, or shared bliss, the stories in Ecstatic Cahoots target the friction between our need for ecstatic self-transcendence and our passionate longing for trust between lovers, friends, family, and even strangers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dybek, Stuart: - Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction--Ecstatic Cahoots, Paper Lantern, I Sailed with Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods--as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Dybek is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers' Award, four O. Henry Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is distinguished writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. |