His Wife Leaves Him

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Dixon was born in 1936 in New York City. He is a former professor of creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and still hammers out his fiction on a vintage typewriter. He is also a two time National Book Award nominee -- for his novels Frog and Interstate . Klappentext This prose fiction novel, written by literary prizewinner Stephen Dixon, replicates the consciousness of a jilted man. Zusammenfassung His Wife Leaves Him is a fictional novel as achingly simple as its title: A man! Martin! thinks about the loss of his wife! Gwen. Dixon! like all great writers! captures consciousness. Stories matter here! and the writer understands how people tell them and why they go on retelling them! for stories! finally! may be all that Martin has of Gwen. His Wife Leaves Him is Dixon's most important and ambitious novel! his tenderest and funniest writing to date! and the stylistic and thematic summation of his writing life.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Dixon, Stephen Dixon
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2013
• EAN: 9781606996041
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-604-1
• No. of pages: 414
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary