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"An imaginative and penetrating collection." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Vivid.Means's last collection was a finalist for the National Book Award.the stories here are just as unsentimental and tightly wound." -- New York Times Book Review
Crystalline." -- The New Yorker on Assorted Fire Events
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"Vivid.Means's last collection was a finalist for the National Book Award.the stories here are just as unsentimental and tightly wound." -- New York Times Book Review
Crystalline." -- The New Yorker on Assorted Fire Events
"Lean, agile.There's not a cheap emotion or a predictable conclusion to be found...humane [and] unaccountably lovely." -- New York Times Book Review on Assorted Fire Events
"David Means knows his way around the English language. [The Secret Goldfish] aims toward a mythology of the modern heartland...so lovely I want to quote the whole thing."--Los Angeles Times
"A darkly comic cache of stories . . . impressively inventive."--Elle
"With stunning simplicity, Means offers 15 stirring portraits of tragedy, loss, and love."--Esquire
"Vivid...Means's last collection was a finalist for the National Book Award...the stories here are just as unsentimental and tightly wound."--New York Times Book Review
"A splendid short story collection...from one of the most original writers of short fiction working today--Esquire on Assorted Fire Events
Crystalline."--The New Yorker on Assorted Fire Events
A collection of short works features such protagonists as a hapless man who tries to avoid being struck by lightning, a pair of canines bent on mayhem, and a neglected goldfish that watches a family falling to pieces.
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0007164890
- ISBN 13 9780007164899
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages211
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