14 Stories
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Book Overview
Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed through a fish-eye lens-slightly distorted and off-center, yet recognizable and often familiar.
14 Stories is part comedy, part tragedy, part social comment and part spoof. But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801872057
ISBN13:9780801872051
Release Date:September 2002
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 9.2"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
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a real crowd pleaser!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I loved this book, even though I had to teach it to an undergraduate literature class..at JHU where Dixon also teaches/taught. Dixon writes a ton of stuff, and he belongs to the category of author who is coming out with more and more and more. I haven't read more recent stuff (Steve, please give us a breather!), but I'm sure it's equally inspiring/zany/experimental/hit-or-miss/frantic/existential/eclectic. But getting back to this volume. My students, who normally resented having to read books by profs at their university, just loved this little volume to death, and so did I. These stories were light-hearted, easy to read, clever and full of memorable lines and characters. I really have no basis for declaring it to be the best of Dixon's s.s. collections, but it's the best out of the ones I'd encountered pre-1995. BTW, the joke of the book is that the volume actually contains 13 (not 14) stories.
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