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”What makes these stories most pleasurable is Nesset’s supple style, capable of bluntness and lyricism alike. In any mode, he hardly seems capable of writing an uninteresting sentence. . . . Nesset can bewitch you with one word. But he can also make 100 sing like a chorus.”
―Pittsburgh City Paper
“A stunning collection. Nesset’s style is distinct . . . His similes are original and often surprising.”
―Erie Times-News
“Paradise Road delivers us, in a barbed and wiry prose, into the certainties of a future riding in hard and indifferent, a world brittle and chipped at the edges, no home at all for the soft-hearted or soft-minded. Kirk Nesset works the mean and woeful precincts of the heart, his people gone whichaway with want, every sunrise revealing yet another chance to screw up, every midnight a welcome relief from misrule and mistake. Here's a book like gunfire down the block--spooky and unexpected and unforgettable--a book that grabs you by the scruff and shakes you silly with its wisdom and its odd and dangerous beauty.”
―Lee K. Abbott
“Really good writers seem to have their own terrain, their own timing, their own off-key lullabies, and Kirk Nesset is certainly a good short story writer. These stories are melodious when they need to be, jangle when we need to hear what's discordant. They're about lives lived without a self-congratulatory champagne flute in sight, played against a background of shifting, uneasy, endlessly surprising ordinary life.”
―Ann Beattie
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New Still in the publisher's clear shrink wrap. This book was the Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature prize. Seller Inventory # 000544