The Start of Something - The Selected Stories of Stuart Dybek

''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.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Dybeck, Stuart Dybek, Dybek Stuart
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.11.2017
• EAN: 9781784702854
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-285-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 200 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary