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Short Stories
Bloomsbury USA
February 2009
On Sale: February 3, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 1596915749
EAN: 9781596915749
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A collection of stories from one of the New Yorkerβs βtwenty young fiction writers of the new millennium,β a series of unforgettable glimpses into contemporary family life. Set in the American Southwest, and featuring one previously unpublished story, Nothing Right shows one of our best writers working at the top of her game. Antonya Nelsonβs stories are masterpieces: poignant, hilarious, truthful explorations of domesticity. The artfully rendered characters in Nothing Right try to keep themselves intact as their personal lives explode around them. A mother and her teenage son finally find common ground when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. A woman leaves her husband and finds herself living with a stranger who is getting extensive plastic surgery while her best friend is dying of cancer. In βOr Else,β one of three short stories nominated for a National Magazine Award for the New Yorker, a man brings his girlfriend to a house he claims belongs to his family, only to have his lie exposed when one of the real owners comes home to scatter her fatherβs ashes. These stories are sure to delight longtime fans and readers lucky enough to be just discovering Antonya Nelson.
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