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What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming Americans (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction)
Peter Lasalle
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Paperback. Series: Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today.
In this collection of eleven stories, LaSalle explores how everyday life for many—an FBI agent, a study-abroad student, a drug dealer's chic girlfriend, a trio of Broadway playwrights, among others—can often take on something much larger than that, almost the texture of a haunting dream. Marked by stylistic daring and a rare lyricism in language, this is intense, thoroughly moving ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268033927
SKU
V9780268033927
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About Peter Lasalle
Peter LaSalle is the author of several books of fiction, most recently the novel Mariposa's Song and a short story collection, Tell Borges If You See Him, recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award in 2007. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Paris Review, Tin House, Zoetrope, Yale Review, Antioch Review, Best American Short Stories, and Prize ... Read more
Reviews for What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming Americans (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction)
"I've always believed that as a short story writer Peter LaSalle has been in the same class as Donald Barthelme and Joyce Carol Oates in the avant-garde of American fiction writers, and now, reading his new collection, What I Found Out About Her, I am more than confirmed in that belief: indeed, his sophisticated and highly controlled formal experimentation, which ... Read more