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For decades, Richard Stern has been acclaimed as one of the American masters of the short story.
Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories brings together for the first time forty-nine of Stern's best short works and novellas-from "Dr. Cahn's Visit," which
The New Republic praised as "the very best very short story in the English language," to classics like "Teeth" and "Wanderers." This collection demonstrates Stern's astonishing ability to portray people from all walks of life, their flawed relationships to ideas, their sometimes bizarre relationships with lovers and friends, their often brilliant, if skewed, appraisals of themselves.
About the author
RICHARD STERN is the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. In 1985 he won the Award of Merit for the Novel awarded every six years by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His recent works include
Pacific Tremors, published by TriQuarterly Books in 2001, and
What Is What Was (Chicago, 2001). New editions of three of his major novels--
Natural Shocks,
Other Men's Daughters, and
Stitch-are also forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern in 2004.
