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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307379213
ISBN-13
9780307379214
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92467285
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gryphon : New and Selected Stories
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-013785
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Baxter's skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection." Publishers Weekly, starred review "Mesmerizing…The uncanny power of Baxter's work derives from his knowledge of our secret selves as well as our surface ones." Kirkus, “Baxter’s skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection.� -Publishers Weekly, starred review “Mesmerizing&The uncanny power of Baxter’s work derives from his knowledge of our secret selves as well as our surface ones.� -Kirkus “What a treasure this volume is! As it arcs from ‘Harmony of the World’ (my favorite early Baxter) through such glories as ‘Fensted's Mother’ and ‘The Disappeared’ and on to the marvelous new work, it dazzles us with the full brilliance of this writer's vision. ‘The problem with joy,’ says one of his characters, ‘is that it binds you to life; it makes you greedy for more happiness.’ As does Baxter's beautiful work.� - Andrea Barrett “Baxter weaves together seemingly mundane activities into complex examples of love, fear, and anxiety&each action serves as a lens to focus Baxter’s illumination of the mysteries of life.� - Library Journal “The superior stories&showcase Baxter’s first-rate talents in the form: sophisticated humor, exact writing style, plots at once ordinary and extraordinary, and in, common with all masters of the form, wizardry at the fetching opening line.� -Booklist Previous praise for the work of Charles Baxter “Charles Baxter’s stories have reminded me of how broad and deep and shining a story can be.� -Alice Munro “Like Raymond Carver, Baxter has become a master of articulating the quiet confusion of despair and of subtly suggesting that despair may, at times, be redemptive.� -Ann Beattie “Without question, Charles Baxter is among our best contemporary writers, always graceful, always dramatic. Superlatives are insufficient. Here is literature. Here is art.� -Tim O’Brien “Charles Baxter asks the most wonderful questions and addresses the most essential subjects-the thing we have been thinking about but haven’t, until we read these stories, known how to begin to say.� –Francine Prose “Baxter’s passionate writing raises the level of regard for life itself, let alone the art of writing.� -Howard Norman “Charles Baxter asks the most wonderful questions and addresses the most essential subjects-the things we have been thinking about but haven’t, until we read these stories, known how to begin to say.� -Francine Prose, "Baxter's skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection." Publishers Weekly,starred review "Mesmerizing…The uncanny power of Baxter's work derives from his knowledge of our secret selves as well as our surface ones." Kirkus "What a treasure this volume is! As it arcs from 'Harmony of the World' (my favorite early Baxter) through such glories as 'Fensted's Mother' and 'The Disappeared' and on to the marvelous new work, it dazzles us with the full brilliance of this writer's vision. 'The problem with joy,' says one of his characters, 'is that it binds you to life; it makes you greedy for more happiness.' As does Baxter's beautiful work." -Andrea Barrett Previous praise for the work of Charles Baxter "Charles Baxter's stories have reminded me of how broad and deep and shining a story can be." Alice Munro "Like Raymond Carver, Baxter has become a master of articulating the quiet confusion of despair and of subtly suggesting that despair may, at times, be redemptive." Ann Beattie "Without question, Charles Baxter is among our best contemporary writers, always graceful, always dramatic. Superlatives are insufficient. Here is literature. Here is art." Tim O'Brien "Charles Baxter asks the most wonderful questions and addresses the most essential subjects-the thing we have been thinking about but haven't, until we read these stories, known how to begin to say." Francine Prose, "Baxter's skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Baxter evokes something like the chilling starkness and human isolation of the work of Edward Hopper&Baxter is a warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives&highly readable." New York Times Book Review "Mesmerizing&The uncanny power of Baxter's work derives from his knowledge of our secret selves as well as our surface ones." -Kirkus "What a treasure this volume is! As it arcs from 'Harmony of the World' (my favorite early Baxter) through such glories as 'Fensted's Mother' and 'The Disappeared' and on to the marvelous new work, it dazzles us with the full brilliance of this writer's vision. 'The problem with joy,' says one of his characters, 'is that it binds you to life; it makes you greedy for more happiness.' As does Baxter's beautiful work." - Andrea Barrett "Baxter weaves together seemingly mundane activities into complex examples of love, fear, and anxiety&each action serves as a lens to focus Baxter's illumination of the mysteries of life." - Library Journal "The superior stories&showcase Baxter's first-rate talents in the form: sophisticated humor, exact writing style, plots at once ordinary and extraordinary, and in, common with all masters of the form, wizardry at the fetching opening line." -Booklist " There is a fierceness in Baxter's realistic scenes of calamity that weds feeling with technique&Baxter exemplifies how entertainment and enlightenment come together in good fiction&fun-loving and deep." Asheville Citizen-Times "A feast of affecting encounters." Parade Magazine " There is a fierceness in Baxter's realistic scenes of calamity that weds feeling with technique&Baxter exemplifies how entertainment and enlightenment come together in good fiction&fun-loving and deep." Asheville Citizen-Times Previous praise for the work of Charles Baxter "Charles Baxter's stories have reminded me of how broad and deep and shining a story can be." -Alice Munro "Like Raymond Carver, Baxter has become a master of articulating the quiet confusion of despair and of subtly suggesting that despair may, at times, be redemptive." -Ann Beattie "Without question, Charles Baxter is among our best contemporary writers, always graceful, always dramatic. Superlatives are insufficient. Here is literature. Here is art." -Tim O'Brien "Charles Baxter asks the most wonderful questions and addresses the most essential subjects-the thing we have been thinking about but haven't, until we read these stories, known how to begin to say." Francine Prose "Baxter's passionate writing raises the level of regard for life itself, let alone the art of writing." -Howard Norman "Charles Baxter asks the most wonderful questions and addresses the most essential subjects-the things we have been thinking about but haven't, until we read these stories, known how to begin to say." -Francine Prose From the Hardcover edition., "Baxter's skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection." Publishers Weekly,starred review
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Ever since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers was further confirmation of his mastery: his gift for capturing the immediate moment, for revealing the unexpected in the ordinary, for showing how the smallest shock can pierce the heart of an intimacy. Gryphon brings together the best of Baxter s previous collections with seven new stories, giving us the most complete portrait of his achievement. Baxter once described himself as a Midwestern writer in a postmodern age: at home in a terrain best known for its blandness, one that does not give up its secrets easily, whose residents don t always talk about what s on their mind, and where something out of the quotidian some stress, the appearance of a stranger, or a knock on the window may be all that s needed to force what lies underneath to the surface and to disclose a surprising impulse, frustration, or desire. Whether friends or strangers, the characters in Baxter s stories share a desire sometimes muted and sometimes fierce to break through the fragile glass of convention. In the title story, a substitute teacher walks into a new classroom, draws an outsized tree on the blackboard on a whim, and rewards her students by reading their fortunes using a Tarot deck. In each of the stories we see the delicate tension between what we want to believe and what we need to believe. By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, Gryphon proves William Maxwell s assertion that nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself. ", Ever since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America's finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection-- Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers --was further confirmation of his mastery: his gift for capturing the immediate moment, for revealing the unexpected in the ordinary, for showing how the smallest shock can pierce the heart of an intimacy. Gryphon brings together the best of Baxter's previous collections with seven new stories, giving us the most complete portrait of his achievement. Baxter once described himself as "a Midwestern writer in a postmodern age": at home in a terrain best known for its blandness, one that does not give up its secrets easily, whose residents don't always talk about what's on their mind, and where something out of the quotidian--some stress, the appearance of a stranger, or a knock on the window--may be all that's needed to force what lies underneath to the surface and to disclose a surprising impulse, frustration, or desire. Whether friends or strangers, the characters in Baxter's stories share a desire--sometimes muted and sometimes fierce--to break through the fragile glass of convention. In the title story, a substitute teacher walks into a new classroom, draws an outsized tree on the blackboard on a whim, and rewards her students by reading their fortunes using a Tarot deck. In each of the stories we see the delicate tension between what we want to believe and what we need to believe. By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, Gryphon proves William Maxwell's assertion that "nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself."
LC Classification Number
PS3552.A854G79 2011
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