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More copies of this ISBNTell Me: 30 Storiesby Mary Robison
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Publisher Comments:From the celebrated author David Gates in Newsweek described as a "literary master," a selection from over twenty-five years.
Chosen from Robison's three long-unavailable collections, along with four new stories, Tell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career. In these stories (most of which have appeared in The New Yorker), we enter her sly world of plotters, absconders, ponderers, and pontificators. Robison's characters have chips on their shoulders; they talk back to us in language that is edgy and nervy; they say "all right" and "okay" often, not because they consent, but because nothing counts. Still, there are small victories here, small only because, as Robison precisely documents, larger victories are impossible. Here then, among others, is "Pretty Ice," chosen by Richard Ford for The Granta Book of American Short Stories; "Coach," chosen for Best American Short Stories; "I Get By," an O. Henry Prize Stories selection; and "Happy Boy, Allen," a Pushcart Prize Stories selection. These stories — sharp, cool, and astringently funny — confirm Mary Robison's place as one of our most original writers and led Richard Yates to comment, "Robison writes like an avenging angel, and I think she may be a genius." Review:"Thirty brief, sharply delineated short stories...chronicle emotional dislocation with witty dispassion....The brevity of these tales sometimes leaves the reader hanging....Yet nothing is superfluous, and in the spare sadness of Robison's prose entire lives are presented." Publishers Weekly
Review:"No American short-story writer speaks to our time more urgently or fondly than Robison." David Leavitt, The Village Voice
Review:"Robison?s stories always have the rare intimacy of confession....Robison is realism in the form of narrative non sequitur, but what is gained by strategic anti-reliance on plot is, in the lesser efforts, lost to an over-reliance on the emotional pyrotechnics of death, either random or self-inflicted. Still, good to see an important voice back in print." Kirkus Reviews
Review:"The sparest of [Robison's] stories are hardly there; the best are crisp sketches of hopeful Americans....Robison's sense of comedy is so inseparable from empathy that a grin cracked at her characters' foolishness is a smile of self-recognition. (Grade: B+)" Troy Patterson, Entertainment Weekly
Review:"Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." The New York Times Book Review
About the AuthorMary Robison is the author of three story collections and two novels. She has written for Hollywood and been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1977. She is now a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her most recent novel is Why Did I Ever?
Table of Contents1 Coach 1
2 An Amateur's Guide to the Night 20 3 Smoke 33 4 In the Woods 40 5 The Help 45 6 I Get By 59 7 Daughters 68 8 Seizing Control 82 9 Kite and Paint 88 10 Father, Grandfather 95 11 Trying 105 12 Pretty Ice 117 13 While Home 125 14 In Jewel 138 15 Happy Boy, Allen 143 16 I Am Twenty-One 155 17 Independence Day 159 18 Apostasy 168 19 For Real 175 20 May Queen 183 21 Your Errant Mom 188 22 The Wellman Twins 199 23 Mirror 208 24 Care 217 25 Doctor's Sons 228 26 What I Hear 232 27 Smart 237 28 Sisters 252 29 Likely Lake 260 30 Yours 275 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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