Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/11/2017
ISBN: 9781784702854
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 200mm x 22mm x 134mm
Weight: 290g
RRP: £9.99
'One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure' George Saunders
Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the short story
The Start of Something is a visionary work following the lovelorn beatniks, hard-boiled gangsters and jaded academics of America, journeying through a haze of drugs, dreams and lucid memory. Seductive and freewheeling, each story glittering with the found poetry of the street, this is the definitive introduction to a life’s work by a writer who has re-enchanted short fiction with every new collection.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/11/2017
ISBN: 9781784702854
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 200mm x 22mm x 134mm
Weight: 290g
RRP: £9.99
One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure
A poet of the short story, Stuart Dybek is a strange and exceptional talent… Impressive.
[Dybek’s stories] are strikingly with-it, distinctly 21st century in their shape and method… Dybek has also always stirred understated, powerfully realized and ravishingly beautiful images almost casually into his work.
[The Start of Something is] worth leaping on.
A great deal of the art of the short story is to do with exits and entrances… [Dybek] has a knack for getting both things right… Dybek is – and this he certainly has in common with Ishiguro – a writer doing completely his own thing.