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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt.3Wby Gabriel Brownstein
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Nine Salingeresque stories about New Yorkers and their marvelous eccentricities. This brilliantly inventive first collection captures the disparate lives of the residents of Manhattan's West 89th Street. Five stories are set in one apartment building, where young Davie Birnbaum watches his neighbors' lives unfold. The title story reworks F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," whose hero is born as an old man and ages in reverse; Brownstein's Button lives on the third floor, fading away toward infancy. In apartment 7E, a lawyer named Zauberman reenacts the life of Hawthorne's Wakefield: he abandons his family so that he can spy on them. Meanwhile, the proctologist in the penthouse plays Icarus and Daedalus with his misfit son. These are tales of literary voyeurism, as the narrators look in on other people's everyday victories and misfortunes — marriages, car accidents, love affairs, and adoptions — and make sense of what they see by thinking about the stories they know best. Review:"[M]ysterious, resonant, haunting; their echoes will stay with you long after you've finished his lovely, lovely book." Dale Peck, author of Now It's Time to Say Goodbye Review:"[A] master storyteller....There is no doubt, this collection introduces a great talent." Martha McPhee, author of Bright Angel Time Review:"[A] wonderfully unsettling, feverish collection of short stories — funny and haunting and unlike anything else out there." Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing Synopsis:In this brilliantly inventive collection of stories, the author captures the disparate lives of the residents of Manhattan's West 89th Street from marriages, car accidents, love affairs, and adoptions.
About the AuthorGabriel Brownstein's stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, The Northwest Review, The Literary Review, and The Hawaii Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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