Attention Please Now: Stories
"Pitt...shows us how it's done in his remarkable debut collection. In all of Pitt's stories you find yourself hurtling toward an ending or denouement that is both frightening and seductive." McClatchy NewspapersA remarkable debut by a brilliant young writer. --Brian MortonThe world in these taut, finely wrought stories is and is not the world we know. Pitt pushes his characters to the edge of the possible with a fabulist's eye for the strange, potent detail and the realist's sure grasp of human emotion. A piquant, funny, original debut. --Rachel PastanThe central characters of these remarkable stories are oddly ordinary and inordinately odd: that is to say, they are each uniquely qualified to speak for life outside of fiction. Pitt allows them to build the worlds they inhabit from their very particular understandings of what life is, thus endowing their narratives with unpredictable outcomes, and startlingly unexpected revelations along the way. Attention Please Now is a collection possessed of a genuine fictional beauty. --Chuck Wachtel