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Collection of Stories
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 0374299412
Hardcover
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Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the
short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she
demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely
distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and
disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in
acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as
their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of
9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away
from the news of her ex-husband's life-threatening illness,
and her unlikely guide, a titled art scout in desperate
revolt against his circumstances and aging; to the too
painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister,
whose tragic life embitters him to the very idea of family,
Eisenberg evokes "intense, abundant human lives" in which
"everything that happens is out there waiting for you to
come to it."
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