THE MINIATURE WIFE AND OTHER STORIES

Gonzales, Manuel.

ISBN 10: 1594486042 / ISBN 13: 9781594486043

Published by Riverhead Books., NY:, 2013

About this Item

HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Signed by Gonzales. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 31128

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE MINIATURE WIFE AND OTHER STORIES
• Publisher: Riverhead Books., NY:
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594486042
• ISBN 13: 9781594486043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.

The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In “The Artist’s Voice” we meet one of the world’s foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in “Pilot, Copilot, Writer.” Sound can kill in “The Sounds of Early Morning.” And, in the title story, a man is at war with the wife he accidentally shrank. For these characters, the phenomenal isn’t necessarily special—but it’s often dangerous.

In slightly fantastical settings, Gonzales illustrates very real guilt over small and large marital missteps, the intense desire for the reinvention of self, and the powerful urges we feel to defend and provide for the people we love. With wit and insight, these stories subvert our expectations and challenge us to look at our surroundings with fresh eyes. Brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and told with the narrative instinct of a born storyteller, The Miniature Wife is an unforgettable debut.

About the Author

Manuel Gonzales is a graduate of the Columbia University graduate creative writing program. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Believer. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two children.