The collected stories / Leonard Michaels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaels, Leonard, 1933-2003.

Standardized Title:

Short stories

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 403 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Summary:

Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. "The Collected Stories "brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut "Going Places "(1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they appeared in "The New Yorker," "Threepenny Review," and "Partisan Review." At every stage in his career, Michaels produced taut, spare tales of sex, love, and other adult intimacies: gossip, argument, friendship, guilt, rage. A fearless writer--"destructive, joyful, brilliant, purely creative," in the words of John Hawkes--Michaels probed his characters' motivations with brutal humor and startling frankness; his ear for the vernacular puts him in the company of Philip Roth, Grace Paley, and Bernard Malamud. Remarkable for its compression and cadences, his prose is nothing short of addictive. "The Collected Stories "is a landmark.

Contents:

Manikin

City boy

Crossbones

Sticks and stones

Deal

Intimations

Making changes

Mildred

Fingers and toes

Isaac

Green thought

Finn

Going places

Murderers

Eating out

Getting lucky

Storytellers, liars, and bores

In the fifties

Reflections of a wild kid

Downers

Trotsky's garden

Annabella's hat

I would have saved them if I could

Hello Jack

Some laughed

Captain

Journal

Honeymoon

Girl with a monkey

Tell me everything

Viva la Tropicana

Nachman

Nachman from Los Angeles

Nachman at the races

Penultimate conjecture

Nachman burning

Of mystery there is no end

Cryptology.

ISBN:

9780374126544

0374126542

OCLC:

77476651

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