Apparition and Late Fictions – A Novella and Stories - Softcover

Lynch, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393339025 ISBN 13: 9780393339024

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

These stories are linked by the gone and not forgotten: former spouses, dead parents, missing children. Lynch creates a world in which people searching for connection and old comforts find them both near at hand and oddly out of reach.

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Review:

Meditative and politely laconic, this is a terrific collection from a writer who thinks and feels and tells stories with an engagingly distilled candor and assurance all his own.--Eileen Battersby

A powerful, meditative collection. The title story is a masterpiece.

It may be difficult to discern which has had a greater influence on Lynch, his Irish ethnicity or his Michigan upbringing, but the result is a lyricism coupled with a locale of abundant natural beauty and an attachment to the offbeat characters who are its inhabitants.--Robert Birnbaum

[Lynch] writes with a poetic precision and beauty capable of inspiring sheer joy.--Christopher Walton

About the Author:

Thomas Lynch has authored five collections of poetry, one of stories, and four books of essays. His first, The Undertaking, won the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction and the American Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Times, among other publications. He works as a funeral director in Milford, Michigan, and teaches at the Bear River Writer's Conference.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393339025
• ISBN 13: 9780393339024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224