The Collected Stories - Couverture souple

Michaels, Leonard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374531293 ISBN 13 : 9780374531294

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Synopsis

Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they appeared in The New Yorker, Threepenny Review, and Partisan Review.

At every stage in his career, Michaels produced taut, spare tales of sex, love, and other adult intimacies: gossip, argument, friendship, guilt, rage. A fearless writer--"destructive, joyful, brilliant, purely creative," in the words of John Hawkes--Michaels probed his characters' motivations with brutal humor and startling frankness; his ear for the vernacular puts him in the company of Philip Roth, Grace Paley, and Bernard Malamud. Remarkable for its compression and cadences, his prose is nothing short of addictive.

The Collected Stories is a landmark.

"Leonard Michaels's stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries -- Grace Paley and Philip Roth." -- Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) was the author of Going Places, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, and The Men's Club, among other books. FSG will publish his Collected Stories in June to coincide with the reissue of Sylvia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374531293
• ISBN 13: 9780374531294
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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