Name: Fresh Complaint: Stories
SKU: 50916045
Price: 377.00 ZAR
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Author: Eugenides, Jeffrey
ISBN: 9781250192721

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher

Picador

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250192721

Synopsis "Fresh Complaint: Stories "

The first collection of short fiction from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American. The stories in Fresh Complaint explore equally rich―and intriguing―territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail” (selected by Annie Proulx for Best American Short Stories), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people’s wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art flounder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in Fresh Complaint, a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her immigrant family lead her to a drastic decision that upends the life of a middle-aged British physicist. Narratively compelling, beautifully written, and packed with a density of ideas despite their fluid grace, these stories chart the development and maturation of a major American writer.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides (Detroit, 1960) studied at Brown and Stanford universities. He is the author of three acclaimed novels, all published by Anagrama: The Virgin Suicides, adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola: "Extraordinary novel, the Lisbon sisters are to the literature of the nineties what Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye was to the fifties" (Sergi Sánchez, El Mundo); Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer and was considered one of the best novels of recent decades: "Outstanding, very powerful" (Antonio Fontana, ABC); "Magnificent family saga, a dazzling novel" (Ignacio Martínez de Pisón); "Colossal" (David Guzmán, La Razón); and The Marriage Plot: "Fine and empathetic... Eugenides returns to claim his place among the master craftsmen of the (great) (American) novel" (Rubén Pujol, Rockdelux); "A luminous meditation on the distance between literature and life" (Eduardo Lago, El País).

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