num_pages: 152
description: Fiction. Short Stories. Originally released by Knopf in 1996, Lutz's rigorously innovative debut barely made a ripple in the mainstream publishing world. Meanwhile, however, the book attained a cult status, and its influence has grown tremendously in the years since its appearance, disappearance, and reappearance. "Gary Lutz is a sentence writer from another planet, deploying language with unmatched invention. He is not just an original literary artist, but maybe the only one to so strenuously reject the training wheels limiting American narrative practice. What results are stories nearly too good to read: crushingly sad, odd, and awe-inspiring"--Ben Marcus.
language: English
title: Stories in the Worst Way
titlecomplete: Stories in the Worst Way
genres: Literature, American, Collections, Literary Fiction, United States, Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Contemporary
ratings_count: 890
publisher: 3rd Bed Books