Sad Grownups - Couverture souple

Stuber, Amy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996981667 ISBN 13 : 9780996981668

Editeur : Stillhouse Press, 2024

Synopsis

For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world.

Winner of the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

A neighborhood of picturesque content-creation houses perched on too-green lawns in a California desert; a meandering stampede of unleashed dogs on the streets of San Francisco; a skein of snow geese alighting in a state park in Missouri; an uncanny fundraising auction at an upscale suburban-DC prep school. Inhabiting these worlds of disconnection and dislocation are the "sad grownups" a middle-aged queer couple arguing over whether to have children, a college professor dying from cancer, two recent high school graduates plotting a robbery, a sixty-year-old counselor at a boys' summer camp sheltering herself from the realities of life-all connected more closely to the landscapes around them than to other people, searching fervently for liberation, understanding, and even happiness, wherever and however they might be found.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amy Stuber's writing has appeared in the New England Review, Flash Fiction America, Ploughshares, The Idaho Review, Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, Joyland, and elsewhere. She's the recipient of The Missouri Review's 2023 William Peden Prize in fiction, winner of the 2021 Northwest Review Fiction Prize, and runner-up for the 2022 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. Her work received a special mention in Pushcart Prize XLIV, appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2021, has been nominated for Best of the Net, and appears in Best Small Fictions 2020 and 2023. She has a PhD in English, has taught college writing, and worked in online education for many years.You can find her work at www.amystuber.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stillhouse Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996981667
• ISBN 13: 9780996981668
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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