Sleep

The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise themselves as they speak, in sentences that cross themselves out and start over, as his narrators examine and explore every possible alternative, to the point where these texts become palimpsests, recording not only what is or was, but what might be. And it is left to the reader to determine which is which. Is which.This collection tests the range of Dixons technique, including stories that continue his exploration of perspective by switching from the male to the female point of view in a relationship. Dixons narrators have been described by Richard Eder in a Newsday review of Gould: A Novel in Two Novels as "discursive, witty, amiably rueful: the voice of Woody Allen before the headlines hit."

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Dixon
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9781566890816
• ISBN: 978-1-56689-081-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 215 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature