The Start of Something
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Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up and falling in love. Spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work. By a North American master of the short story. What are you waiting for? Where memory collides with imagination. And where seduction is the order of the day. 'One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure' George SaundersNineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the short storyThe Start of Something is a visionary work following the lovelorn beatniks, hard-boiled gangsters and jaded academics of America, journeying through a haze of drugs, dreams and lucid memory. Seductive and freewheeling, each story glittering with the found poetry of the street, this is the definitive introduction to a life’s work by a writer who has re-enchanted short fiction with every new collection.
Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up and falling in love. Spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work. By a North American master of the short story. What are you waiting for? Where memory collides with imagination. And where seduction is the order of the day. 'One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure' George SaundersNineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the short storyThe Start of Something is a visionary work following the lovelorn beatniks, hard-boiled gangsters and jaded academics of America, journeying through a haze of drugs, dreams and lucid memory. Seductive and freewheeling, each story glittering with the found poetry of the street, this is the definitive introduction to a life’s work by a writer who has re-enchanted short fiction with every new collection.
FnacStuart Dybek (Auteur) - Verschenen op 01/11/2017 bij Ballantine Books
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