Book

Fresh complaint : stories

Record details

ISBN: 0374203067 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780374203061 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0374203067 : HRD
ISBN: 9780374203061 : HRD
ISBN: 9780374203061 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0374203067 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 285 pages ; 22 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Complainers -- Air mail -- Baster -- Early music -- Timeshare -- Find the bad guy -- The oracular vulva -- Capricious gardens -- Great experiment -- Fresh complaint.

Summary, etc.:

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.