You Are Not A Stranger Here: Stories (Signed First Edition)

Adam Haslett

ISBN 10: 0385509529 / ISBN 13: 9780385509527

Published by Doubleday, New York, 2002

About this Item

Doubleday (New York), 2002. First edition, first printing, second state dust jacket with the "Today's Book Club" insignia. Hardbound. Near fine/Near fine. Some slight wear. His debut. Nominated for National Book Award in Fiction. Signed by author on title page. Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2003.

Seller Inventory # 7854

Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Are Not A Stranger Here: Stories (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385509529
• ISBN 13: 9780385509527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The publication of “Notes to My Biographer,” in Zoetrope: All-Story magazine introduced readers to the remarkable voice of Adam Haslett. Nominated as part of a National Magazine Award, broadcast on National Public Radio, performed at venues across the country, the story brought the author widespread recognition.

Now, in his first book, Adam Haslett gives us nine richly varied stories, each suffused with intense emotion and written in a lyric prose alternatively lush and spare. You Are Not a Stranger Here carries its readers into the hearts and minds of people facing life’s most profound dilemmas. We meet an aging inventor still burning with ideas as he makes a final visit to his gay son. A psychiatrist’s encounter with a reluctant patient reveals a young doctor’s own needs and fears. An orphaned boy finds solace in a classmate’s violence. The return of an old lover disturbs the peace between a brother and sister who have lived together for decades.

In settings that range from New England to Great Britain, from Los Angeles to the American West, the stories in this book treat what Faulkner called the old verities and truths of the heart: love and honor, pity and pride, compassion and sacrifice. They do so with heartbreaking precision and an often generous humor, drawing us past the surface of characters’ lives into the moments of decision and recognition that shape them irrevocably. Together these stories constitute a significant achievement by a powerful new writer.

About the Author

Adam Haslett is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Yale Review, BOMB magazine, and National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts.” He has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award and received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Michener/Copernicus Society of America. He is currently a student at Yale Law School.