Assorted Fire Events: Stories - Softcover

Means, David

 
9780060855789: Assorted Fire Events: Stories

Synopsis

A new collection of short stories by the 1999 Pushcart Prize winner introduces readers to a colorful cast of characters as they struggle with personal epiphanies and moments of fate. Reader's Guide available. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Review

‘The roll-call of honour, from Eudora Welty, to John Cheever, John Updike, William Maxwell, to Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff and Annie Proulx, is long and rich. Just when it seemed that things could get no better, along comes David Means.’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

‘Extraordinary accomplished.’ Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday

‘These are brittle, masculine stories of shifting surfaces and hard edges, true insight and tenderness.’ Lisa Allardice, Daily Telegraph

Sunday Times

'a high-calibre, award-winning collection'.

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