Chosen from Robison's three long-unavailable collections, along with four new stories, Tell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career. In these stories (most of which have appeared in The New Yorker), we enter her sly world of plotters, absconders, ponderers, and pontificators. Robison's characters have chips on their shoulders; they talk back to us in language that is edgy and nervy; they say all right and okay often, not because they consent, but because nothing counts. Still, there are small victories here, small only because, as Robison precisely documents, larger victories are impossible. Here then, among others, is Pretty Ice, chosen by Richard Ford for The Granta Book of American Short Stories, Coach, chosen for Best American Short Stories, I Get By, an O. Henry Prize Stories selection, and Happy Boy, Allen, a Pushcart Prize Stories selection. These stories-sharp, cool, and astringently funny-confirm Mary Robison's place as one of our most original writers and led Richard Yates to comment, Robison writes like an avenging angel, and I think she may be a genius.

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Title: Tell ME 30 Stories
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1582432589
ISBN 13: 9781582432588
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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Four new pieces accompany the twenty-six previously published stories from the "New Yorker" contributor.

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Mary Robison is the author of three story collections and two novels. She has written for Hollywood and been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1977. She is now a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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