Synopses & Reviews
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"A very beautiful book." The New York Times Book Review
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"The language is beautiful, the attraction fatal....[Canty] is a poet among storytellers." Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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"Kevin Cantys stories are short, spare and both beautiful and painful to read." The Washington Post
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"The ease with which he renders such a vast terrain of livesfrom city to wilderness, children to adults, professionals to proles is Cantys crowning achievement." Time Out New York
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"Fans of well-wrought short stories will delight in Canty's newest collection. His sense of structure is so tight that the words thrum and vibrate as they are being read." Booklist
About the Author
Kevin Canty is the award-winning author of the short story collection A Stranger in This World and the novels Into the Great Wide Open and Nine Below Zero. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Details, Story, the <>, and Glimmer Train. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
Table of Contents
Tokyo, my love --Aquarium --Flipper --Honeymoon --Carolina Beach --Red dress --Sleepers holding hands --Little Debbie --Scarecrow --Little palaces --Girlfriend hit by bus.