**From Kate Walbert, the highly acclaimed, National Book Award nominee, comes a dazzling, career-spanning collection of new and selected stories.** In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into the hearts and minds of women. Her characters are searc
I Was Trying to Describe What it Feels Like New and Selected Stories
β Scribed by Noy Holland
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Year
- 2016;2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 161902893X
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β¦ Synopsis
Noy Holland is one of America's great writers, and each of her previous collections has been greeted with wide acclaim. Critics have praised her exquisite prose, her exuberant characters, and the exhilarating tension of her tales.
Following the wonderful reception of her first novel, Bird, which Counterpoint published last year, we are proud to offer a gathering of 48 stories, 17 from her previous collections and 25 never before published in book form.
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