{"product_id":"9781940430911","title":"Late Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interlinked tales in this \u003ci\u003eLate Stories \u003c\/i\u003edetail the excursions of an aging narrator navigating the amorphous landscape of grief in a series of tender and often waggishly elliptical digressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Jonathan Lethem as \"one of the great secret masters\" of contemporary American literature, Stephen Dixon is at the height of his form in these uncanny and virtuoso fictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith\u003ci\u003e Late Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, master stylist Dixon returns with a collection exploring the elision of memory and reality in the wake of loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Dixon \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1936 in New York City. He is the author of more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eFrog \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eInterstate\u003c\/i\u003e, which were nominated for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curbside Splendor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137240645872,"sku":"9781940430911","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940430911_p0.jpg?v=1763667267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940430911","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}