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The Spot Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by David Means

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The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery.
The Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end.

The Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the currents of her own tragic story.
The Spot is in the ear of a Manhattan madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbor .
The Spot is a suburban hospital room in which a young father confronts his son's potentially devastating diagnosis.
The Spot is a dusty encampment in Nebraska where a gang of inept radicals plot a revolution.

The Spot draws thirteen new stories together into a masterful collection that shows David Means at his finest: at once comically detached and wrenchingly affecting, expansive and concise, wildly inventive and firmly rooted in tradition. Means's work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O'Connor ("London Review of Books"), Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac ("Newsday"), Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson ("Chicago"" Tribune"/NPR), Denis Johnson ("Entertainment Weekly"), Poe, Chekhov, and Carver ("Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"), but the spot he has staked out in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.


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  • Title The Spot
  • Author David Means
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 164
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faber & Faber, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2010-05
  • ISBN 9780865479128 / 0865479127
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 6.6 x 0.73 in (21.74 x 16.76 x 1.85 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009042213
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

DAVID MEANS was born and raised in Michigan. His second collection of stories, "Assorted Fire Events," earned the "Los Angles Times" Book Prize for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle nomination. His third book, "The Secret Goldfish," received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. His fourth book, "The Spot," was selected as a 2010 Notable Book by "The New York Times," and won an O. Henry Prize. His books have been translated into eight languages, and his fiction has appeared "The New Yorker," "Harper's Magazine," "Esquire," "Zoetrope," "The Best American Short Stories," "The Best American Mystery Stories," "The O. Henry Prize Stories," and numerous other publications. He lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.

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