Mr. Agreeable - Softcover
Mr. Agreeable is a collection of flash and sudden fictions, featuring keyhole glimpses of lives at the edge, of characters haunted by shadowy pasts, caught at pivotal moments and braced for what lies ahead. Burdened and bent in their various ways, Nesset's figures are led forward by others by strangers, assailants, ambiguous friends and and are finally nudged toward awareness or tentative insight, if not moved to action. Gathered together, the stories comprise a twisted collage, sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling, often hilariously unsettling. Stories from Mr. Agreeable have been anthologized widely, appearing in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, in Norton's Flash Fiction Forward and New Sudden Fiction, and elsewhere.
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About the Author:
Kirk Nesset is author of Paradise Road (short stories, University of Pittsburgh Press), The Stories of Raymond Carver (nonfiction, Ohio University Press), and Alphabet of the World: Selected Works of Eugenio Montejo (translations, University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming). He was awarded the Drue Heinz literature prize in 2007 and has received a Pushcart Prize and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, translations and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Agni, The Sun, Fiction and Prairie Schooner, among others. He teaches creative writing and literature at Allegheny College.
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In these stories, we remember our lives are indeed a sequence of moments, with their distinct and defining characteristics; they re like polaroids from a personal apocalypse. There is a navigational alchemy in this work, a mastery of subject and craft. --Kate Braverman
Kirk Nesset has, in his collection of short short stories Mr. Agreeable, given us a beautiful bouquet of crystal shards, each one of which, when held to the light, refracts and amplifies and makes new the entire notion of light. But be careful: like crystal shards and like any good stories these haunting pieces cut to the bone. --Bret Lott
Nesset is attuned to the fine-edged songs of the mundane, alert to the explosions ready to burst even in the dull routes where our lives lead. All this without forcing the drama or cheating the literal crawl of time. I wish I could manage this. Hurrah! --Barry Hannah
Kirk Nesset has, in his collection of short short stories Mr. Agreeable, given us a beautiful bouquet of crystal shards, each one of which, when held to the light, refracts and amplifies and makes new the entire notion of light. But be careful: like crystal shards and like any good stories these haunting pieces cut to the bone. --Bret Lott
Nesset is attuned to the fine-edged songs of the mundane, alert to the explosions ready to burst even in the dull routes where our lives lead. All this without forcing the drama or cheating the literal crawl of time. I wish I could manage this. Hurrah! --Barry Hannah
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- PublisherMammoth Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1595390219
- ISBN 13 9781595390219
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages98
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Mr. Agreeable
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ISBN 13: 9781595390219
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