Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories

Richard Stern

Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Country
United States
Published
31 May 2013
Pages
624
ISBN
9780810152427

Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories

Richard Stern

Honorable Mention, 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award

For decades, Richard Stern has been acclaimed as one of the American masters of the short story. Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories brings together for the first time forty-nine of Stern’s best short works and novellas-from Dr. Cahn’s Visit, which The New Republic praised as the very best very short story in the English language, to classics like Teeth and Wanderers.

Stern’s stories-witty, moving, always full of energy-never sacrifice storytelling to mere elegance or wandering wisdom. This collection demonstrates Stern’s astonishing ability to portray people from all walks of life, their flawed relationships to ideas, their sometimes bizarre relationships with lovers and friends, their often brilliant, if skewed, appraisals of themselves. The stories always reflect an abiding compassion for his characters whoever they are and whatever their origins. All exist within the politics and workplaces and bedrooms of the real world. All are incorrigibly human.

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