The Dead Fish Museum

D'Ambrosio, Charles

ISBN 10: 1400077931 / ISBN 13: 9781400077939

Published by Vintage Books, New York, 2007

About this Item

Trade paperback. 236 pages. Signed by author on title-page. First Vintage soft-bound edition, first printing with full number line. A collection of short stories. Round silver finalist sticker for the Pen/Faulkner Award on front cover and Their book plate/advert for upcoming signings laid-in loose. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Very minor crease to lower front cover at fore-edge corner, else as new. Seller Inventory # 016547

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Dead Fish Museum

Publisher: Vintage Books, New York

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Each of these eight burnished, terrifying, masterfully crafted stories is set against a landscape that is both deeply American and unmistakably universal. A son confronts his father’s madness and his own hunger for connection on a misguided hike in the Pacific Northwest. A screenwriter fights for his sanity in the bleak corridors of a Manhattan psych ward while lusting after a ballerina who sets herself ablaze. A Thanksgiving hunting trip in Northern Michigan becomes the scene of a haunting reckoning with marital infidelity and desperation. And in the magnificent title story, carpenters building sets for a porn movie drift dreamily beneath a surface of sexual tension toward a racial violence they will never fully comprehend. Taking place in remote cabins, asylums, Indian reservations, the backloads of Iowa and the streets of Seattle, this collection of stories, as muscular and challenging as the best novels, is about people who have been orphaned, who have lost connection, and who have exhausted the ability to generate meaning in their lives.
 
A must read for everyone who cares about literary writing, The Dead Fish Museum belongs on the same shelf with the best American short fiction.

About the Author:

Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of The Point and Orphans, a collection of essays.  His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space.  Among other honors, he is a recent recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award.