num_pages: 219
description: Includes a new story, "Body Language"!Now in paperback, Eric Puchner's celebrated debut collection, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, established him as one of our most brilliant and promising new literary voices.Writing from an impressive range of perspectives -- men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists -- Puchner deftly exposes the dark, tender undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a dehumanizing world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, and transcendent, sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these stories make up an extraordinary and strikingly original collection.
language: English
title: Music Through the Floor: Stories
titlecomplete: Music Through the Floor: Stories
genres: Fiction, Anthologies, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 458
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
publisher: Scribner