Authors: Stephen Dixon
ISBN-13: 9780801872051, ISBN-10: 0801872057
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Stephen Dixon has published more than 125 short stories and is the award-winning author of over a dozen books, including the collections Long Made Short and All Gone, available from Johns Hopkins.
Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed through a fish-eye lensslightly distorted and off-center, yet recognizable and often familiar.
14 Stories is part comedy, part tragedy, part social comment and part spoof. But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.
14 Stories | 1 | |
Signatures | 17 | |
Milk Is Very Good for You | 23 | |
The Sub | 36 | |
The Signing | 54 | |
The Security Guard | 59 | |
Love Has Its Own Action | 74 | |
Cut | 87 | |
Out of Work | 103 | |
The Intruder | 112 | |
Ann from the Street | 121 | |
Names | 126 | |
Streets | 134 |