American Innovations: Stories (Signed First Edition)

Galchen, Rivka

ISBN 10: 0374280479 / ISBN 13: 9780374280475

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

About this Item

New York: FSG (2014). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. New/New. A pristine unread copy. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page in month of publication, May 2014. Purchased new and opened only for author signing. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free shop. No marks, defects, clips, etc. You cannot find a better copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: American Innovations: Stories (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374280479
• ISBN 13: 9780374280475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A brilliant new collection of short stories from "the conspicuously talented" (Time) Rivka Galchen

In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka's Galchen's American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family.
The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, reimagined from the perspective of female characters. Just as Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar" responds to John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Galchen's "The Lost Order" covertly recapitulates James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," while "The Region of Unlikeness" is a smoky and playful mirror to Jorge Luis Borges's "The Aleph." The title story, "American Innovations," revisits Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose."
By turns realistic, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, these marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer like none other today.

About the Author

Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction Writing and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of "20 Under 40" American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Atmospheric Disturbances, was published by FSG in 2008.