The Kind I'm Likely To Get: A Collection

Foster, Ken

ISBN 10: 0688169805 / ISBN 13: 9780688169800

Published by HarperCollins (edition First Edition), 1999

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Seller Inventory # 0688169805-11-1

Synopsis:

In her New Yorker review of The KGB Bar Reader, Daphne Merkin called attention to Ken Foster's introduction: "His last sentence ... caught me up short, because it seemed both so obvious and so original: 'And that the best writers reveal something about themselves that a smarter person would choose to hide.'" In this collection, Foster does exactly that, as he explores the limits of what we can expect from others, and from ourselves. From New Orleans to Portland to Manhattan and Paris, Foster's characters circle each other as well as their own fates in fourteen stories that evoke Mary Gaitskill, Lorrie Moore, and Denis Johnson. The heart of what we're looking for in life provides the backbone to these surprising and poetic pieces -- in which Foster ultimately reveals the gap between what we hope for and the kind we're likely to get.

About the Author: Ken Foster has organized the KGB Bar Reading Series since its inception in 1994. He received an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where he was fiction editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. He lives in New York City and is at work on a novel.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Kind I'm Likely To Get: A Collection
Publisher: HarperCollins (edition First Edition)
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.