What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming Americans (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction) - Softcover

LaSalle, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268033927 ISBN 13: 9780268033927

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014

Synopsis

What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today.

In this collection of eleven stories, LaSalle explores how everyday life for many―an FBI agent, a study-abroad student, a drug dealer's chic girlfriend, a trio of Broadway playwrights, among others―can often take on something much larger than that, almost the texture of a haunting dream. Marked by stylistic daring and a rare lyricism in language, this is intense, thoroughly moving fiction that probes the contemporary American psyche, portraying it in all its frequently painful sadness and also its brave and unflagging hope.

About this title

About the Author

Peter LaSalle is the author of several books of fiction, most recently the novel Mariposa's Song and a short story collection, Tell Borges If You See Him, recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award in 2007. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Paris Review, Tin House, Zoetrope, Yale Review, Antioch Review, Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. He is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0268033927
• ISBN 13: 9780268033927
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 222