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Simon & Schuster
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
176 pages
ISBN: 1416590293
EAN: 9781416590293
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Fiction Family Life
Marisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers with her
critically acclaimed The God of War (a Los Angeles
Times Book Prize finalist), praised by Richard Russo as “a
novel of great metaphorical depth and beauty.” In this
elegant, finely wrought new collection, Alone With You,
Silver has created eight indelible stories that mine the
complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways
love manifests itself. Her brilliantly etched characters
confront life’s abrupt and unsettling changes with fear,
courage, humor, and overwhelming grace. In the O. Henry
Prize–winning story “The Visitor,” a VA hospital nurse’s
aide contends with a family ghost and discovers the ways in
which her own past haunts her. The reticent father in “Pond”
is confronted with a Solomonic choice that pits his love for
his daughter against his feelings for her young son. In
“Night Train to Frankfurt,” first published in The New
Yorker, a daughter travels to an alternative-medicine
clinic in Germany in a gambit to save her mother’s life. And
in the title story, a woman vacations in Morocco with her
family while contemplating a decision that will both ruin
and liberate them all. From “Temporary,” where a young
woman confronts the ephemeral nature of companionship, to
“Three Girls,” in which sisters trapped in a snowstorm
recognize the boundaries of childhood, the nuanced voices of
Alone With You bear the hallmarks of an instant
classic from a writer with unerring talent and imaginative
resource. Silver has the extraordinary ability to render her
fictional inhabitants instantly relatable,in all their
imperfections. Her stories have the singular quality of
looking in a mirror. We see at once what is familiar and
what is strange. In these stirring narratives, we meet
ourselves anew.
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