Stuart Dybek

Ecstatic Cahoots (eBook, ePUB)

Fifty Short Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives each tale his signature mix of characters—some almost ghostly, others vividly real—who live in worlds tinged with surreal potential. There are crazed nuns hijacking streetcars, eerie adventures across frozen ponds, and a boy who is visited by a miniature bride and groom every night in his uncle’s doomsday compound. Whether they are about a simple transaction, a brave inquiry, a difficult negotiation, or shared bliss, the stories in Ecstatic Cahoots target the friction between our need for ecstatic self-transcendence and our passionate longing for trust between lovers, friends, family, and even strangers. Call it micro-fiction or mini-fiction, flash fiction or short shorts. Whatever the label, the marvelous encounters here are marked by puzzlement, anguish, and conspiratorial high spirits. In this thrilling collection, Stuart Dybek has once again re-envisioned the possibilities of fiction, creating myriad human situations that fold endlessly upon each other, his crackling prose drawing out the strange, the intimate, and the mysterious elements in each.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374710552
• Artikelnr.: 41044010

Autorenporträt

Stuart Dybek

Inhaltsangabe

Misterioso
The Start of Something
Drive
I Never Told This to Anyone
Fridge
Midwife
Confession
The Kiss
Córdoba
Ordinary Nudes
Current
A Confluence of Doors
Hometown
Ant
Ransom
Marvelous Encounters of My Life
Samaritan
Fantasy
Transaction
Flu
Swing
Between
Arf
Fingerprints
Mole Man
Bruise
Ravenswood
Brisket
Alms
Here Comes the Sun
Coat
Fedora
Goodwill
Dark Ages
Wash
Vista di Mare
Voyeur of Rain
Naked
Tea Ceremony
The Question
Transients Welcome
Flies
Aria
Belly Button
Ice
The Story of Mist
Happy Ending
Fiction
Inland Sea
Pink Ocean