Stay Up with Me - Hardcover
The stories in Tom Barbash's evocative and often darkly funny collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect to one another and to the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in 'The Break' interferes with her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in 'Balloon Night' persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated party, while trying to keep the myth of his marriage equally afloat. The young narrator in 'The Women' watches his widowed father become the toast of Manhattan's midlife dating scene, as he struggles to find his own footing. The characters in Stay Up With Me find new truths when the old ones have given out or shifted course. Barbash laces his narratives with sharp humour, psychological acuity, and pathos, creating deeply resonant and engaging stories that pierce the heart and linger in the imagination.
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'Many of these stories appear gentle, but they mine emotional depths that are frightening...Barbash has been compared to John Cheever, and that sense of a disturbed suburban consciousness permeates this collection' --Sunday Herald
'Staying up late is exactly what you'll find yourself doing in the company of this highly satisfying short story collection' --Independent
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'Staying up late is exactly what you'll find yourself doing in the company of this highly satisfying short story collection' --Independent
Tom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel The Last Good Chance and the non-fiction New York Times Bestseller, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House, McSweeney's, VQR, and other publications and have been performed on National Public Radio for the Selected Shorts Series. He currently teaches in the MFA programme at California College of the Arts. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and currently lives in Marin County.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1471128423
- ISBN 13 9781471128424
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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