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Terrarium: New and Selected Stories

✍ Scribed by Trueblood, Valerie

Book ID: 110479581
Publisher: Counterpoint
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Weight: 655 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781640090736

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✦ Synopsis

This collection will cement Valerie Trueblood's importance as one of the truly great American short story writers at work today: gathered together for the first time are stories spanning her acclaimed career, presented along with her newest work
Valerie Trueblood's writing has been praised by The New York Times as "an exercise in literary restraint and extreme empathy." Selected here are stories from her previous collections—finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award—alongside her newest collection, which lends this book its name.
The new stories collected within Terrarium represent an exciting direction for the author: a condensing of narrative and, in some cases, a departure from it into another state of mind.
It's hard to describe any of Trueblood's stories as "typical." She does not write about people from a single class, or caste, or geographical area. She has not written a single story...

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