The Paris Review asks: who hasn't survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a break-up, or presided over a murder? The next addictively clever Paris Review anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Throughout these pages you will find men plagued with guilt, women burdened by history, scientists bound by passion, mothers fogged with delusion, and lovers vexed with jealousy. In the theme that encompasses every life, no protagonist--or reader!--is exempt. Includes contributions from Stephin Merritt, Joanna Scott,…mehr
The Paris Review asks: who hasn't survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a break-up, or presided over a murder? The next addictively clever Paris Review anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Throughout these pages you will find men plagued with guilt, women burdened by history, scientists bound by passion, mothers fogged with delusion, and lovers vexed with jealousy. In the theme that encompasses every life, no protagonist--or reader!--is exempt. Includes contributions from Stephin Merritt, Joanna Scott, Annie Proulx, Ben Okri, Wells Tower, Julie Orringer, Rick Bass Snow by James Lasdun, Malinda McCollum, Norman Rush, Denis Johnson, Mary Robison, Charles Baxter, Miranda July, Richard Stern, Elizabeth Gilbert, Frederick Busch, and Charlie Smith.
The Paris Review was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A. S. Byatt, T. C. Boyle, William T. Vollmann, and many other writers who have given us the great literature of the past half century. Some of the magazine's greatest hits have been collected by Picador in The Paris Review Book of People with Problems as well as The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms and The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953.
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Introduction by Stephin Merritt A Borderline Case by Joanna Scott The Wamsutter Wolf by Annie Proulx The Dream Vendor's August by Ben Okri The Brown Coast by Wells Tower When She Is Old and I Am Famous by Julie Orringer The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass Snow by James Lasdun The Fifth Wall by Malinda McCollum Instruments of Seduction by Norman Rush Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Likely Lake by Mary Robison Westland by Charles Baxter Birthmark by Miranda July Audit by Richard Stern The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick by Elizabeth Gilbert Widow Water by Frederick Busch Crystal River by Charlie Smith Contributors Acknowledgments
Introduction by Stephin Merritt A Borderline Case by Joanna Scott The Wamsutter Wolf by Annie Proulx The Dream Vendor's August by Ben Okri The Brown Coast by Wells Tower When She Is Old and I Am Famous by Julie Orringer The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass Snow by James Lasdun The Fifth Wall by Malinda McCollum Instruments of Seduction by Norman Rush Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Likely Lake by Mary Robison Westland by Charles Baxter Birthmark by Miranda July Audit by Richard Stern The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick by Elizabeth Gilbert Widow Water by Frederick Busch Crystal River by Charlie Smith Contributors Acknowledgments
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