{"product_id":"9781429987226","title":"The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwenty-seven short stories by \"a contemporary master\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing \"exquisitely distilled stories\" which \"present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life\" to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997) and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of America's finest writers.\"—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\"Concentrated bursts of perfection.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e(London) \"Shimmering stories that possess the power and charm to move us.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\"Exhilarating.\"—\u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\"Outstanding.\"—\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor \u003c\/i\u003e\"Eisenberg simply writes like no one else.\"—\u003ci\u003eElle \u003c\/i\u003e\"Eisenberg's stories possess all the steely beauty of a knife wrapped in velvet.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\"Dazzling.\"—\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York \u003c\/i\u003e\"Magic.\"—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek \u003c\/i\u003e\"Comic, elegant and pitch perfect.\"—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\"One of the great fiction writers living in America today.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News \u003c\/i\u003e\"There aren't many contemporary novels as shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny as Eisenberg's best stories.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122437144816,"sku":"9781429987226","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429987226_p0.jpg?v=1763750335","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429987226","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}