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Harper Perennial
July 2016
On Sale: June 21, 2016
275 pages
ISBN: 0062410350
EAN: 9780062410351
Kindle: B00SRYUW22
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Fiction
The triumphant, long-awaited return of a writer of
remarkable gifts: in this collection of richly imagined
stories—her first new work in twenty years—the master of
short fiction delivers a diverse suite of stories about men
and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of
transition and challenge. Beginning in the 1980s,
Elizabeth Tallent’s work, appeared in some of our most
prestigious literary publications, including The New
Yorker, Esquire, and Harper’s. Marked by its
quiet power and emotional nuance, her fiction garnered
widespread praise. Now, at long last, Tallent returns
with a new collection of diverse, thematically linked, and
deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for
capturing relationships at their moment of transformation:
marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old
love and reaching haltingly toward new futures.
Mendocino Fire explore moments of fracture and
fragmentation; it limns the wilderness of our inner psyche
and brilliantly evokes the electric tension of deep emotion.
In these pages, Tallent explores expectations met and
thwarted, and our never-ending quest to avoid being
alone. With this breathtaking collection, Elizabeth
Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon
beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and
Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising, profound yet
elemental, Mendocino Fire is a welcome visit with a
wise and familiar friend.
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