num_pages: 225
description: Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11, to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg brilliantly "illustrates the lives of people rubbed raw by what the fates have sent them" ( Vanity Fair ).
language: English
title: Twilight of the Superheroes
titlecomplete: Twilight of the Superheroes
genres: Short Stories, Short Story Collection, New York, Literary Fiction, American Fiction, Literature, Comics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1331
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Picador