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Fresh Complaint

by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Proudly presenting the widely anticipated new work of fiction from the multi-award winning bestselling author of Middlesex—a #1 major bestseller in Canada—and The Marriage Plot—also an acclaimed national bestseller—and the beloved The Virgin Suicides.
Featuring unseen stories from one of the most eclectic, dynamic fiction writers working today, Fresh Complaint brings together works both new and previously published—including the crème de la crème of Eugenides's beloved New Yorker stories, never before collected between two covers.
     Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown that he is an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, sexual identity, self-discovery, family love and what it means to be an American in our times. The stories in Fresh Complaint continue that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of "Baster" to the wry, moving account of a young traveller's search for enlightenment in "Air Mail" (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling, beautifully written and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long.
     Showcasing stories from as far back as the 1980s and as recently as 2017, Fresh Complaint is the career-spanning collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Publisher: Knopf Canada

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  • ISBN: 9780307401915
  • File size: 1518 KB
  • Release date: October 3, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9780307401915
  • File size: 1518 KB
  • Release date: October 3, 2017
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Proudly presenting the widely anticipated new work of fiction from the multi-award winning bestselling author of Middlesex—a #1 major bestseller in Canada—and The Marriage Plot—also an acclaimed national bestseller—and the beloved The Virgin Suicides.
Featuring unseen stories from one of the most eclectic, dynamic fiction writers working today, Fresh Complaint brings together works both new and previously published—including the crème de la crème of Eugenides's beloved New Yorker stories, never before collected between two covers.
     Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown that he is an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, sexual identity, self-discovery, family love and what it means to be an American in our times. The stories in Fresh Complaint continue that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of "Baster" to the wry, moving account of a young traveller's search for enlightenment in "Air Mail" (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling, beautifully written and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long.
     Showcasing stories from as far back as the 1980s and as recently as 2017, Fresh Complaint is the career-spanning collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Fiction Literature Short Stories
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