num_pages: 992
description: Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing exquisitely distilled stories which present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986) Under the 82nd Airborne (1992) All Around Atlantis (1997) and her most recent collection-Twilight of the Superheroes (2006).One of Americas finest writers.San Francisco Chronicle Concentrated bursts of perfection.The Times (London) Shimmering stories that possess the power and charm to move us. The New York Times Exhilarating.Harpers Magazine Outstanding.Christian Science Monitor Eisenberg simply writes like no one else.Elle Eisenbergs stories possess all the steely beauty of a knife wrapped in velvet.The Boston Globe Dazzling.Time Out New York Magic.Newsweek Comic elegant and pitch perfect.Vanity Fair One of the great fiction writers living in America today.The Dallas Morning News There arent many contemporary novels as shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny as Eisenbergs best stories.The New York Times Book Review 
language: English
title: The Collected Stories
publisher: Picador