Stephen Dixon

20 well-crafted tales. Highly charged, insistent, often expressing themselves in gritty urban vernacular, his narrators emerge as ironic, sensitive, self-deprecating losers and loners.

This collection, a non-baker's dozen of what the author calls post-Frog fictions, work written since his novel "Frog" - a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize was completed in 1991, is about loss, mainly: culture ("The Rare Muscovite"), allurement ("The Caller"), reliability ("Flying"), continuity ("Man, Woman, and Boy"), potency ("Crows"), companions ("Voices, Thoughts"), skull ("Battered Head"), child ("Lost"), parent...

Draws a portrait of an American man through a collection of shorter stories documenting his romantic and sexual encounters over the course of forty years, showing the pain and wonder of love that are such a part of life in the modern world

One of Dixon's earlier short story collections.

Written before stalking became a social issue, Stephen Dixon novel about a young man's obsessive love for a beautiful woman takes place for 24 hours in NYC.

Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel --a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed through a fish-eye lens--slightly distorted...

Philip Seidel, un reconocido escritor, es el protagonista de estos treinta y un relatos tan intrínsecamente conectados que bien podrían leerse como una novela. Su mujer, con quien compartió treinta años de vida, ha fallecido. La muerte, la vejez, el deseo de conservar la lucidez, la posibilidad de volver a enamorarse después de un duelo son solo algunos de los tópicos que Stephen Dixon, uno de los escritores más talentosos de la literatura...