Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories Paperback - 2004
by Jim Shepard
From a writer long hailed by his peers, adored by the critics, and worshiped by readers everywhere comes a hard-hitting collection of both familiar and new fiction.
From the jacket flap
"I've been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I'd have to list darts, re-closing Stay-Fresh boxes, and staying out of the way. This is the self-eulogy offered early on by the unwilling hero of the opening story in this collection, a dazzling array of work in short fiction from a master of the form. The stories in Love and Hydrogen--familiar to readers from publications ranging from "McSweeney's to "The "New Yorker to "Harper's to "Tin House--encompass in theme and compassion what an ordinary writer would seem to need several lifetimes to imagine.A frustrated wife makes use of an enterprising illegal-gun salesman to hold her husband hostage; two hapless adult-education students botch their attempts at rudimentary piano but succeed in a halting, awkward romance; a fascinated and murderous Creature welcomes the first human visitors to his Black Lagoon; and in the title story, the stupefyingly huge airship Hindenburg flies to its doom, representing in 1937 mankind's greatest yearning as well as its titanic failure. Generous in scope and astonishing in ambition, Shepard's voice never falters; the virtuosity of Love and Hydrogen cements his reputation as, in the words of Rick Bass, "a passionate writer with a razor-sharp wit and an elephantine heart"--in short, one of the most powerful talents at work today.
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- Title Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories
- Author Jim Shepard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 2004-01-27
- ISBN 9781400033492 / 1400033497
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.16 x 0.73 in (20.37 x 13.11 x 1.85 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003057554
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2004, Page 828
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2003, Page 1337
- New York Times, 01/25/2004, Page 9
- Vanity Fair, 01/01/2004, Page 40
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