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Assorted Fire Events

Assorted Fire Events

Assorted Fire Events
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Assorted Fire Events

by Means, David

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Condition
Very Good ++/Very Good ++
ISBN 10
0007135068
ISBN 13
9780007135066
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London: Fourth Estate - 4th Estate, 2002. Book. Very Good ++. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition. VG++, Remainder mark, very light browning/VG++, Edgewear, rubbing. Short stories. Expanded condition report/scan on request..

Synopsis

Adept and assured, David Means's stories are as perceptive as they are provocative, skillfully and startlingly sounding the depths of human emotion. In Assorted Fire Events we find a major talent honing his skills, a gambler willing to push the limits while, at the same time, taking great care in playing his cards. A married man carries on an affair with a neighbor, and suddenly his mind whisks him back to his brother's drowning. A recently widowed mother must decide what to do with a video of her honeymoon love-making. A distraught businessman goes to the railroad tracks to find some sort of comfort and perhaps peace of mind, but finds the exact opposite in a group of young, miscreant men. Sneaking into a wedding reception, a homeless man forever changes the lives of all present. Suburban sprawl leads to disastrous consequences in the Pushcart Prize-winning "What They Did." In prose that radiates in every direction, Assorted Fire Events exposes the human condition and explores the fragility of those things that we most cherish, establishing David Means as a tremendous new presence in contemporary American literature.

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Bookseller
Klanhorn AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
020184
Title
Assorted Fire Events
Author
Means, David
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good ++
Jacket Condition
Very Good ++
Edition
1st UK Edition
ISBN 10
0007135068
ISBN 13
9780007135066
Publisher
Fourth Estate - 4th Estate
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2002
Bookseller catalogs
Short Stories, Anthologies & Collections;

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