num_pages: 769
description: The esteemed and prescient critic John Hollander wrote that "Frog represents a new phase of Stephen Dixon's work, and manifests a new concentration of creative power and unfailing rhetorical control, and it should certainly bring him the broadened recognition which is already so deep a one." Indeed, when first published in 1991, Frog earned Dixon nominations for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and elevation to the front rank of American letters. Combining interrelated novels, stories, and novellas, Dixon's multilayered and frequently hilarious family epic—the story of Howard Tetch, his ancestors, his parents, his children, and the generations that follow—"reassures us that whatever is precious can never be completely lost" (The Baltimore Sun).
language: English
title: Frog
titlecomplete: Frog
genres: Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 122
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Holt Paperbacks