You Are Not a Stranger Here Stories

Name: You Are Not a Stranger Here Stories
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ISBN: 9780385720724

ISBN-10: 0385720726

ISBN-13: 9780385720724

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Adam Haslett

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In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/12/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.97" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



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The Good Doctor


The Beginnings of Grief


Devotion


War's End


Reunion


Divination


My Father's Business


The Volunteer