Paper Lantern - Love Stories

A collection of short stories of turbulent love by the award-winning author of Ecstatic Cahoots is set in gritty urban environments and offers insight into the author's use of lyrical, impressionist language. 15,000 first printing.

List of contents

Tosca
Seiche
Blowing Shades
Waiting
Four Deuces
The Caller
Oceanic
If I Vanished
Paper Lantern

About the author

Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction--Ecstatic Cahoots, Paper Lantern, I Sailed with Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods--as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Dybek is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writers' Award, four O. Henry Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is distinguished writer-in-residence at Northwestern University.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Dybek
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2015
• EAN: 9780374535384
• ISBN: 978-0-374-53538-4
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature