A Stranger in This World: Stories
by Kevin Canty
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In the tradition of the works of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, this fiction debut shines with verbal brilliance. Disturbing yet compellingly readable, the stories in this collection explore the gap between disappointment and hope, between life as it could be and life as it is.Tags
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Reading these stories ruined my night. I went from telling myself that "nothing is fucked" and nearly believing it, to being absolutely convinced that "everything is fucked," and the transition was so easy. Very 90s, if that makes sense...
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- Original publication date
- 1994
- First words*
- The third time we put my mother into the hospital, my father and I had already moved to Florida, to Jacksonville Beach.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She reached into the back for one of Greg's cold beers and opened it and pointed the big soft toward Sarasota and took off, fast.
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- Dutch, English, French, Spanish
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