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Collected Fictions By: Gordon Lish

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OR Books, June 2010

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In literary America to utter the name Gordon Lish in a conversation is like adding hot sauce to a meal. You either enjoy the zesty experience one that pushes your limits or you prefer to stay away. Its Lish who first as fiction editor at Esquire magazine (where he earned the nickname Captain Fiction) and then at the publisher Alfred A. Knopf shaped the work of many of the countrys foremost writers from Raymond Carver and Barry Hannah to Amy Hempel and Lily Tuck.As a writer himself Lishs stripped-down brutally spare style earns accolades in increasing numbers. His oeuvre is coming to be recognized as among the most significant of the period that spans the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries. Kirkus Reviews wrote of his last collection that Lish…is still our Joyce our Beckett our most true modernist.This definitive collection of Lishs short work includes a new foreword by the author and 106 stories many of which Lish has revised exclusively for this edition. His observations are in turn achingly sad and wryly funny as they spark recognition of our common clumsy humanity. There are no heroes here except perhaps for all of us as we muddle our way through life: they are stories of unfaithful husbands inadequate fathers restless children and writing teachers men lost in their middle age: more often than not first-person tales narrated by one Gordon Lish. The take on life is bemused satirical and relentlessly accurate; the language unadorned: the result is a model of modernist prose and a volume of enduring literary craftsmanship.

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