Synopses & Reviews
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.
Among those to appear:
- Annie Proulx
- Andre Dubus
- Norman Rush
- Charles Baxter
- Wells Tower
- Julie Orringer
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ben Okri
- Rick Bass
Review
"[A]n expert collation of professional-managerial angst." San Francisco Chronicle
Synopsis
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. Among those to appear are Annie Proulx, Norman Rush, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rick Bass, Andre Dubus, and Julie Orringer.
Synopsis
The Paris Review asks: who hasnt 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.
Among those to appear:
- Annie Proulx
- Andre Dubus
- Norman Rush
- Charles Baxter
- Wells Tower
- Julie Orringer
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ben Okri
- Rick Bass
About the Author
The Paris Review has published the work of Gabriel García Márquez, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Michael Chabon, and Jack Kerouac, among many others. They celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2003.
Table of Contents
Introduction...Stephin Merritt
A Borderline Case...Joanna Scott
The Wamsutter Wolf...Annie Proulx
The Dream Vendor's August...Ben Okri
The Brown Coast...Wells Tower
When She Is Old and I Am Famous...Julie Orringer
The Hermit's Story...Rick Bass
Snow...James Lasdun
The Fifth Wall...Malinda McCollum
Instruments of Seduction...Norman Rush
Train Dreams...Denis Johnson
Likely Lake...Mary Robison
Westland...Charles Baxter
Birthmark...Miranda July
Audit...Richard Stern
The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick...Elizabeth Gilbert
Widow Water...Frederick Busch
Crystal River...Charlie Smith
Contributors
Acknowledgments