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In a latest collection of short works, the award-winning author of Assorted Fire Events features such protagonists as a hapless man who tries to avoid being struck by lightning, a pair of canines bent on mayhem, and a neglected goldfish that watches a family falling to pieces. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Achingly intelligent....[David Means] stands among our most gifted younger writers.” (New York Times)
“David Means knows his way around the English language. [The Secret Goldfish] aims toward a mythology of the modern heartland...so lovely I want to quote the whole thing.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Vivid...Means’s last collection was a finalist for the National Book Award...the stories here are just as unsentimental and tightly wound.” (New York Times Book Review)
“A darkly comic cache of stories . . . impressively inventive.” (Elle)
“With stunning simplicity, Means offers 15 stirring portraits of tragedy, loss, and love.” (Esquire)
“An imaginative and penetrating collection.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
“Riveting...it is Means’ signature talent to view the lives of his characters, and life itself, from somewhere just beyond...” (Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex)
“Lean, agile...There’s not a cheap emotion or a predictable conclusion to be found...humane [and] unaccountably lovely.” (New York Times Book Review on Assorted Fire Events)
“A splendid short story collection...from one of the most original writers of short fiction working today (Esquire on Assorted Fire Events)
Crystalline.” (The New Yorker on Assorted Fire Events)
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“David Means knows his way around the English language. [The Secret Goldfish] aims toward a mythology of the modern heartland...so lovely I want to quote the whole thing.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Vivid...Means’s last collection was a finalist for the National Book Award...the stories here are just as unsentimental and tightly wound.” (New York Times Book Review)
“A darkly comic cache of stories . . . impressively inventive.” (Elle)
“With stunning simplicity, Means offers 15 stirring portraits of tragedy, loss, and love.” (Esquire)
“An imaginative and penetrating collection.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
“Riveting...it is Means’ signature talent to view the lives of his characters, and life itself, from somewhere just beyond...” (Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex)
“Lean, agile...There’s not a cheap emotion or a predictable conclusion to be found...humane [and] unaccountably lovely.” (New York Times Book Review on Assorted Fire Events)
“A splendid short story collection...from one of the most original writers of short fiction working today (Esquire on Assorted Fire Events)
Crystalline.” (The New Yorker on Assorted Fire Events)
David Means was born and raised in Michigan. He now lives in Nyack, New York with his wife and twins.
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- EditoreFourth Estate
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 0007164904
- ISBN 13 9780007164905
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine224
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