The UnAmericans: Stories - Softcover

Antopol, Molly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393349969 ISBN 13: 9780393349962

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

A stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, the debut work of fiction by a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree.

Moving from modern-day Jerusalem to McCarthy-era Los Angeles to communist Prague and back again, The UnAmericans is a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history. Molly Antopol’s critically acclaimed debut will long be remembered for its "poise and gravity" (New York Times), each story "so full of heartache and humor, love and life...[it’s] as though we’re absorbing a novel’s worth of insight" (Jesmyn Ward, Salon).

About this title

About the Author

Molly Antopol teaches writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. A recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in San Francisco.

Review

“[Will] make you nostalgic, not just for earlier times, but for another era in short fiction. A time when writers such as Bernard Malamud, and Issac Bashevis Singer and Grace Paley roamed the earth.”
- Meg Wolitzer, NPR

“Fresh and offbeat... memorable and promising.”
- Dwight Garner, New York Times

“A memorable collection of melancholic vignettes about identity, place, and coupling.”
- Ann Hulbert, The Atlantic

“The Unamericans is poised to be this year's sensation... the layered riches and historical sweep of its stories make them feel grand, like novels writ small.”
- Esquire Magazine

“Antopol writes convincingly and with great empathy.”
- Carmela Ciuraru, San Francisco Chronicle

“[Antopol] is a wry, occasionally funny writer, with an unerring grasp on human nature.”
- Laura Moser, Jewish Daily Forward

“A writer of seismic talent...Not since Robert Stone has a writer so examined the nature of disillusionment and the ways in which newfound hope can crack the cement of failed dreams.”
- Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son

“Beautiful, funny, fearless, exquisitely crafted, and truly novelistic in scope...It's clear we're in the hands of a master storyteller―a writer with the emotional heft of Nicole Krauss, the intellectual depth of Saul Bellow, and the penetrating wit of Philip Roth. This book isn’t simply powerful and important―it's necessary.”
- Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing

“Molly Antopol's stories display that wonderful combination of an original voice with settings that are masterfully rendered. A rich collection, a great read.”
- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

“This is deeply humane fiction, coursing with the heat of a passionate, sympathetic heart.”
- Ken Kalfus, author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and Equilateral

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393349969
• ISBN 13: 9780393349962
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288