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23%OFFElizabeth McCracken - Thunderstruck & Other Stories - 9780099592976 - V9780099592976
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Thunderstruck & Other Stories

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Description for Thunderstruck & Other Stories Paperback. .

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House - finalist for the National Book Award - comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with humour, empathy, and rare and magical descriptive powers these nine vibrant stories navigate the fragile space between love and loneliness. In 'Property', a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish the Maine rental house they were to share together by removing his landlord's possessions. In 'Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey', the household of a successful filmmaker is visited years later by ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099592976
SKU
V9780099592976
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag­ination, and Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award). She has received grants and ... Read more

Reviews for Thunderstruck & Other Stories
These nine stories are filled with longing, guilt and violence.
New York Times
Jewelled and barbed with the beauty and brutality of real life, these are sentences of perfect weight and understanding. There are no fillers here, no stories that disappoint: the nine coalesce into something rare and understatedly breathtaking. Like the missing who haunt these stories, Thunderstruck ... Read more

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