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'One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure' George Saunders Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the short story The Start of Something is a visionary work following the lovelorn beatniks, hard-boiled gangsters and jaded academics of America, journeying through a haze of drugs, dreams and lucid memory. Seductive and freewheeling, each story glittering with the found poetry of the street, this is the definitive introduction to a life’s work by a writer who has re-enchanted short fiction with every new collection.

About the Author :
Described by the Atlantic as 'one of America's living masters of the short story', Stuart Dybek has been accoladed on all fronts, receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, a PEN/Malamud Prize, a Lannan Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and four O. Henry Prizes. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared widely in journals such as Harper's, Poetry, Tin House, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker.

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One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure A poet of the short story, Stuart Dybek is a strange and exceptional talent… Impressive. [Dybek’s stories] are strikingly with-it, distinctly 21st century in their shape and method… Dybek has also always stirred understated, powerfully realized and ravishingly beautiful images almost casually into his work. [The Start of Something is] worth leaping on. A great deal of the art of the short story is to do with exits and entrances… [Dybek] has a knack for getting both things right… Dybek is – and this he certainly has in common with Ishiguro – a writer doing completely his own thing. Life in Dybek’s world is messy, and sometimes criminal, but full of heart. Dybek has an uncommon knack for both the short story and the poem. This collection mostly plumbs his American youth, producing mesmeric stories in which enchanting details leap off every page. Crafted, well-made stories that give permanence to those fleeting moments that define lives.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781784702854
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage
  • Height: 200 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: The Selected Stories of Stuart Dybek
  • Width: 134 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1784702854
  • Publisher Date: 02 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 290 gr


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