Borrowed Hearts by Rick DeMarinis - ISBN: 9781583220405
Paperback
Featuring eleven new stories by the acclaimed short story writer, this collection of dark, sardonic tales includes twenty-one tales from the author’s three previously published works.

Borrowed Hearts

New and Selected Stories

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  • Paperback

    322 pages

  • Release Date

    1 August 2011

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Summary

Borrowed Hearts traces the development of Rick DeMarinis’s incantatory voice, including newer work as well as stories selected from his three previous, highly acclaimed collections- Under Wheat (1986), the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction; The Coming of the Free World, a New York Times Notable Book (1988); and The Voice of America (1991). The title story was included in 1991’s The Best Stories of the South, and “Your Story” was played on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781583220405
ISBN-10:1583220402
Author:Rick DeMarinis
Publisher:Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Imprint:Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:322
Release Date:1 August 2011
Weight:490g
Dimensions:228mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

“This greatest-hits anthology … serves as an ideal curbside roost from which to contemplate his tantalizing, if often brooding, artistry.” –Marc Smirnoff, New York Times Book Review “This career-synthesizing collection of stories lands [DeMarinis] on the shelf right next to Flannery O’Connor, another writer who shined a divine light on ordinary saints and sinners.” –Tom Grimes, The Texas Observer “The beauty of reading DeMarinis’s work in bulk; by the end of the 32-story collection, even the weirdest notions seem plausible: Wimpy men with murder in their hearts, cruel slovenly women, and nasty little kids no longer induce winces. Instead, they seem genuine, faintly familiar, and never, ever boring.” –Seattle Times

About The Author

Rick DeMarinis

Rick DeMarinis was the highly acclaimed author of ten novels, includingThe Year of the Zinc Penny, aNew York TimesNotable book, and six short story col-lections, includingApocalypse ThenandBorrowed Hearts. In 1990, he received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each year,Cutthroat- A Journal of the Arts, awards a short story prize in his name. Rick passed away on June 12, 2019.

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