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Loading... All around Atlantisby Deborah Eisenberg
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0374270872, Hardcover)Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Eisenberg pries open daily life to explore the hidden mechanisms of human behavior. Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0671024620, Paperback)Small masterpieces...[a] dazzling collection....Like Alice Munro, virtually her only equal in the field, Deborah Eisenberg here seems incapable of writing a bad short story...She focuses on misfits, people who don't feel at home in the world. So skilled is she at developing these characters as engagingly "ordinary" that we find ourselves identifying with them without realizing how we got there....Eisenberg's writing at times approaches the beauty of a line of poetry. She manipulates her readers with a master's blend of humor and poignancy. Her stories are wondrous....-- David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:58:11 -0500) |
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