Stephen O'Connor

Here Comes Another Lesson (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

STEPHEN O'CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In Here Comes Another Lesson, O'Connor, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the vividly realistic, these brilliant stories offer tender portraits of idealists who cannot live according to their own ideals and of lovers baffled by the realities of love.

The story lines are unforgettable: A son is followed home from work by his dead father. God instructs a professor of atheism to disseminate updated Commandments. The Minotaur is awakened to his own humanity by the computer-game-playing "new girl" who has been brought to him for supper. A recently returned veteran longs for the utterly ordinary life he led as a husband and father before being sent to Iraq. An ornithologist, forewarned by a cormorant of the exact minute of his death, struggles to remain alert to beauty and joy.

As playful as it is lyrical, Here Comes Another Lesson celebrates human hopefulness and laments a sane and gentle world that cannot exist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439195000
• Artikelnr.: 37891300

Autorenporträt

Stephen O'Connor is a writer from Lowell, Massachusetts, where much of his work is set. He is the author of two books of short stories and three previous novels. He has published in numerous literary journals including The Massachusetts Review, The Amsterdam Quarterly, Aethlon, and elsewhere. His essays have appeared in The Boston Globe. O'Connor has won a Helen Literary Award, and received a Distinguished Mention in the Elinor Lipman Contest and an Honorable Mention in the Open Road Review Contest; he was nominated by The Massachusetts Review for a Pushcart Prize. For more information, visit lowellwriter.com.