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Through the Safety Net Stories

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ISBN-10: 0679776494

ISBN-13: 9780679776499

Edition: N/A

Authors: Charles Baxter

List price: $16.00
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Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace. A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her--their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Charles Baxter is author of several novels, including "The Feast of Love", "Shadow Play", & "First Light", & collections of stories including "Believers" & "A Relative Stranger". He teaches writing at the University of Michigan.