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"One of the masters of the short story".--NEWSWEEK. "In almost all the stories in this excellently balanced collection O'Connor's people explode from the page. The nice are here and the nasty: the gentle, the generous, the mean, the absurd, those rich in dignity, those without a shred of it. . . . Without adornment, he simply tells the truth".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD.Synopsis
"One of the masters of the short story".--NEWSWEEK. "In almost all the stories in this excellently balanced collection O'Connor's people explode from the page. The nice are here and the nasty: the gentle, the generous, the mean, the absurd, those rich in dignity, those without a shred of it. . . . Without adornment, he simply tells the truth".--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD.
Peter S. Prescott
One of the masters of the short story. -- Newsweek
Editorials
Anne Tyler
In his sixty-three years, Frank O'Connor produced an impressive amount of work...but it's his short stories that guarantee his immortality. They are encapsulated universes...Each [story] is, in its own way, shattering. -- Chicago Sunday TimesDenis Donoghue
Walter Benjamin says in his essay on Leskov that people think of the storyteller as someone who has come from afar. O'Connor's best stories put the same thought into our heads; how far, in some imaginative sense, he has traveled to achieve such rhythm and accomplish it with such flair. -- New York Times Book ReviewPeter S. Prescott
One of the masters of the short story. -- NewsweekBook Details
Published
August 1, 1982
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
701
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780394710488