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FUN WITH PROBLEMS: Stories.
by Stone, Robert
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York & Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,, 2010.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Second collection of short stories by this award-winning writer. 195 pp.
Synopsis
In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is “one of our greatest living writers” ( Los Angeles Times ) . The stories in this new collection share the signature blend of longing, violence, and black humor with which Stone illuminates the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid bare with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive takes uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone’s great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses—by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive—that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our truest selves.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 58532
- Title
- FUN WITH PROBLEMS: Stories.
- Author
- Stone, Robert
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
- Place of Publication
- New York & Boston:
- Date Published
- 2010.
- Keywords
- short stories, arc, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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