Sleep
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: April 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781566890816
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; Dixon, Stephen - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - General; Fiction; Social life and customs; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / General; General; 20th century; United States
First sentence: Red stops in the park to watch an opera rehearsal.
Description: This new volume presents short stories from the past twenty-five years by a master of contemporary fiction, collected in book form for the first time.

The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise themselves as they speak, in sentences that cross themselves out and start over, as his narrators examine and explore every possible alternative, to the point where these texts become palimpsests, recording not only what is or was, but what might be. And it is left to the reader to determine which is which. Is which.