Secret Goldfish Stories

Name: Secret Goldfish Stories
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ISBN: 9780007164899

ISBN-10: 0007164890

ISBN-13: 9780007164899

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Authors: David Means

List price: $22.95

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It is a less and less well-kept secret that David Means is one of our best fiction writers. In the past few years he has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Readers familiar with Means's electrifying work will recognize the vision at play in The Secret Goldfish -- a trio of erotically charged kids go on a crime spree in Michigan; a goldfish bears witness to the demise of a Connecticut marriage; an extremely unlucky man is stalked by lightning -- but this new work is funnier, more generous, and bigger in its reach. Each story stands on its own, and yet linked…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/7/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Since the publication of his first book, A Quick Kiss of Redemption, David Means's stories have appeared in Harper's, the Paris Review, Bomb, the Antioch Review, the KGB Reader, and a dozen other publications. Born and raised in Michigan, he now lives in Nyack, New York, with his wife and twins.



Lightning Man


Sault Ste. Marie


It Counts as Seeing


Blown from the Bridge


A Visit from Jesus


Petrouchka [with Omissions]


Elyria Man


The Project


Hunger


Counterparts


Dustman Appearances to Date


Carnie


The Nest


Michigan Death Trip


The Secret Goldfish