In the Gloaming: Stories by Alice Elliott Dark - ISBN: 9780684870052
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This collection of stories presents a fictional terrain of secrets, estrangements, and losses that are intrinsic in Dark‘s characters’ lives. The title story is an intense tale of a mother tending to her dying son. In "Maniacs", two sisters love the same man. And in "Close…

In the Gloaming: Stories

Stories

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    17 April 2001

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Summary

When the austere and moving title story of this collection appeared in "The New Yorker" in 1993, it inspired two memorable film adaptations, and John Updike selected it for inclusion in "The Best American Short Stories of the Century." In these ten stories, Alice Elliott Dark visits the fictional town of Wynnemoor and its residents, present and past, with skill, compassion, and wit. By turns funny, sad, and disturbing, these are stories of remarkable power.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780684870052
ISBN-10:0684870053
Author:Alice Elliott Dark
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Simon & Schuster
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:17 April 2001
Weight:299g
Dimensions:16mm x 134mm x 204mm
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Critics Review

Joyce Carol OatesThe New York Review of BooksBeautifully composed…each story exudes the gravitas of a radically distilled novel.

Elle Wise, funny, and wrenching, Dark’s stories illuminate the hidden corners of her complex characters’ lives, catching them in the painfully comic acts of being themselves. Anne Stephenson USA Today Dark…writes with great sympathy for the complexity of ordinary lives. [H]er stories are like the proverbial iceberg: We look at the tip but are compelled to think about all that’s hidden below. Joyce Carol Oates The New York Review of Books Beautifully composed…each story exudes the gravitas of a radically distilled novel. Jennie Yabroff San Francisco Chronicle [Dark] can do a certain kind of writing about a certain kind of love, and break her reader’s heart without seeming to try.

About The Author

Alice Elliott Dark

Alice Elliot Dark is the author of NAKED TO THE WAIST and has won numerous awards. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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