Summary
Jim Shepard's first collection of stories covers some of the themes he has dealt with in his novels: sports-especially baseball, World War II fighter pilots, and family.
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"A wise, artful, stunning collection, full of heart, humor, poignance, and a tremendous sympathy for those who struggle with the human condition." -- Ron Hansen
"A virtuoso collection....[S]mart, economical, and each story displays that most elusive quality: integrity."
-- Kirkus
"He is a passionate and talented writer with razor-sharp wit and an elephantine heart; his work is a combination of both mean and sweet. These stories, extraordinary in breadth and width, are a joy and a privilege and a pleasure to read." -- Rick Bass
"The 14 stories in Jim Shepard's first collection...are almost bewilderingly various in style and subject, but each is delivered with consummate skill. And several are so imaginative and mysterious and have such distinctive voices that they seem certain to take up permanent residence in a reader's memory." -- Tom De Haven
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1996
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.9 pounds
Pages: 197
Publisher's Notes
With his first collection of stories--some comic, others compassionate, all of them enthralling--Shepard again displays his prodigious writing talent. Ranging from winter-league baseball in pre-revolutionary Cuba to a postapocalyptic frontier in the American South, from the set of Murnau's classic horror film Nosferatu to more familiar scenes of family life, these 14 stories span an immense fictional landscape with great verve and humanity.
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