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Loading... Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories (2006)by Deborah Eisenberg
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. hey halle, check out what i'm finally reading... ( ) I love the way these stories seem to ramble, but slowly unfold, until towards the end you see the whole picture. First I was involved with the vividly drawn characters in these stories, then before I knew it I was engrossed. I liked them all, but favorites included the title story about the effects of the 9/11 World Trade disaster on disparate yet connected people; Some Other, Better Otto about a dysfunctional grown family; and Like It Or Not. But descriptions don’t do them justice. no reviews | add a review
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Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11, to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg brilliantly "illustrates the lives of people rubbed raw by what the fates have sent them" (Vanity Fair). No library descriptions found. |
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