The emerald light in the air
Subtitle: stories
By: Donald Antrim
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780374280932
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "A masterful story collection--heartbreaking and hilarious--from one of America's greatest writers. Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do--bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo--they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream. They look for communion in a city, both beautiful and menacing, which can promise so much and yield so little. But they are hungry for life. They want to love and be loved. These stories, all published in The New Yorker over the last fifteen years, make it clear that Antrim is one of America's most important writers. His work has been praised by his significant contemporaries, including Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Jeffrey Eugenides, and George Saunders, who described The Verificationist as "one of the most pleasure-giving, funny, perverse, complicated, addictive novels of the last twenty years." And here, at last, is the story collection we have been waiting for, The Emerald Light in the Air, Antrim's best book yet"--
Table of contents: title: An actor prepares --; title: Pond, with mud --; title: Solace --; title: Another Manhattan --; title: He knew --; title: Ever since --; title: The emerald light in the air.