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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: January 23, 2007
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Studio: Picador
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11, to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg brilliantly "illustrates the lives of people rubbed raw by what the fates have sent them" (Vanity Fair).
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Deborah Eisenberg's stories are highly intelligent, witty, and complex--so complex they're like small novels.
They're actually about something, too. This collection is her apotheosis as an artist (thus far); and she has
just won a well-deserved MacArthur "Genius" grant!
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I can't believe these stories are only earning three stars. If you were not 'conned' into reading these stories and actually enjoy literary fiction, you will probably love these stories. I did. Eisenberg's craft and artistry are amazing
Rating:  -
There is no doubt that Ms. Eisenberg is a talented writer. Her style and structure are like a trim little sailboat coming out of the mist, and the closer it comes - the more open it lays itself for inspection - the more the observer admires the work that went into it. I, on the other hand, write like a man carving a canoe out of a fallen oak tree with a sharp rock, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize Ms. Eisenberg's skill.
To beat a dead metaphor, once the sailboat docks, and the ... Read More
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I may just have to give up on reading short stories. Every so often, I am seduced anew by the breathless, hagiographic blurbs on the cover of the latest hip author's contribution to the genre, to the point where I actually allow myself to believe that the book in question really will be "exhaustingly fascinating", "spirited and masterly", the next {Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Lorrie Moore, John Cheever.....}. Hope springs eternal.
Yet somehow, things never quite turn out as promised. ... Read More
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I stopped reading after the first two stories. Intriguing ideas for a short story collection, and great cover, but poorly executed. The writing is not engaging - at times convoluded and cofusing - and no real connection with the characaters or their plights. The dialogue seemed contrived, and I found myself thinking that people don't really speak the way characters did in this book. Granted, I only made it through 88 pages, but I was comfortable in using that as a prediction for the rest. I'm with a ... Read More
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