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Last Notes and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Dobozy, Tamas


Book ID
110450508
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Year
2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
175 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611454444

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✦ Synopsis


A collection of stunning short fiction from the O. Henry Prize–winning author of Siege 13. "Dobozy's prose is an artistic and intellectual boon" (Publishers Weekly).

Upon the publication of Siege 13, Jeff VanderMeer, in the Washington Post, stated, "the sheer variety of Dobozy's approaches to telling stories, and his commitment not only to provoke thought but to entertain, constitute a virtuoso performance. Siege 13 is without question one of my favorite story collections ever." But the seeds of the Canadian writer's genius were already germinating in his first book, Last Notes.

In the tradition of Aleksandar Hemon's The Question of Bruno and David Bezmozgis's Natasha, Last Notes is a stunning debut collection of short fiction that nails with deadpan irony the dislocations of exile and the disconnects of daily life.

"At a time when front-rank short fiction is...


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