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When Deborah Eisenberg's first book of stories, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, was published, John Updike noted: "Whenever a new writer arrives, a new window of life is opened, and this has happened here." The scope and depth of Eisenberg's idiosyncratic vision were even more apparent in her second collection, Under the 82nd Airborne, which The New York Times Book Review called "nothing short of extraordinary."
As these two collections gathered here into one volume show, Eisenberg's stories have an astonishing power and range. Her characters, whether they are walking in the streets of Manhattan or seemingly abandoned in foreign countries, continually make disquieting and sometimes life-threatening discoveries about themselves, discoveries that illuminate not only their own lives but also the wider net of relationships in which they are enmeshed.
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Review:
Avid short-story readers are probably familiar with Deborah Eisenberg's work, fictional chronicles of modern life in Manhattan and elsewhere, that has been published in magazines and in her two previous collections. But both of those earlier books-- Transactions in a Foreign Currency and Under the 82nd Airborne--have fallen undeservedly out of print. This new publication corrects that omission, reprinting the stories from those books in one volume, including such titles as "Flotsam," "Rafe's Coat," and "A Cautionary Tale."
About the Author:
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of stories. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught at the University of Virginia since 1994, where she is currently a professor of creative writing.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0312424213
- ISBN 13 9780312424213
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages496
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