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Books by Stuart Dybek
  | | Ecstatic Cahoots(1st Edition) Fifty Short Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28050-5, ISBN: 0-374-28050-9 "In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives each tale his signature mix of characters--some almost ghostly, others vividly real--who live in worlds tinged with surreal potential. There are crazed nuns hijacking streetcars, eerie adventures across frozen ponds, and a boy who is visi ..." |
 | | Paper Lantern(Reprint) Love Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53538-4, ISBN: 0-374-53538-8 "A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love"Ready!""""Aim!""On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it's cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a c ..." |
 | | The Coast of Chicago(1st Edition) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42425-1, ISBN: 0-312-42425-6 "The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with ..." |
 | | Paper Lantern(1st Edition) Love Stories by Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-14644-3, ISBN: 0-374-14644-6 "A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic loveReady!Aim!On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it’s cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a corner o ..." |
 | | Streets in Their Own Ink(1st Edition) Poems by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2006 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52991-8, ISBN: 0-374-52991-4 "In a city like that one might sailthrough life led by a runaway hat.The young scattered in whatever directionstheir wild hair pointed and, gustinginto one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City"In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enact ..." |
 | | I Sailed with Magellan(Reprint) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42411-4, ISBN: 0-312-42411-6 "Major new fiction from an acclaimed masterFrom the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed With Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality amidst the stark urban landscapes of Chicago's south side; there, the daily experiences of the neighborhood are transformed in the lush imaginative adventur ..." |
 | | Childhood and Other Neighborhoods(1st Edition) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17658-1, ISBN: 0-226-17658-4 "In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places—in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters become exotic landscapes of fear-filled possibility, of dreams not yet turned to nightmares. Chronicling what happens when Old World faith meets ..." |
 | | Food and Booze(1st Edition) A Tin House Literary Feast by Lydia Davis, Francine Prose, Grace Paley, Stuart Dybek, Steve Almond, Anthony Swofford, Elissa Schappell, Michelle Wildgen, Nicole J. Georges Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 2006 by Tin House Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9773127-7-1, ISBN: 0-9773127-7-1 "Editors have assembled a delicious collection of food and drink writing that originally appeared in Tin House magazine. Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast celebrates seven years of the dazzling writing and delicious recipes of Tin House magazine’s Readable Feast and Blithe Spirits departments. Literature and gastronomy converge in an idiosyncratic survey of everything from lotus fruit, elk, and absinthe to bread, eggs, and brandy ..." |
 | | Brass Knuckles(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2004 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-415-5, ISBN: 0-88748-415-8 "The poems in this powerful first book have grown from the American urban experience of the last half of this century, a time of decay and diminishing possibilities; they vary from realistic vignettes of working-class Chicago neighborhoods to prose poems elegant and spare in their surrealism. At the middle of this book and at the thematic center of the collection is Dybek’s remarkable reworking of the myth of Persephone, in which the Am ..." |
 | | Streets in Their Own Ink Poems by Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2004 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27095-7, ISBN: 0-374-27095-3 "In a city like that one might sailthrough life led by a runaway hat.The young scattered in whatever directionstheir wild hair pointed and, gustinginto one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City"In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enact ..." |
 | | I Sailed with Magellan(1st Edition) by Stuart Dybek Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17407-1, ISBN: 0-374-17407-5 "Major new fiction from an acclaimed masterFrom the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed With Magellan, Dybek finds characters of irrepressible vitality amidst the stark urban landscapes of Chicago's south side; there, the daily experiences of the neighborhood are transformed in the lush imaginative adventur ..." |
 | | Coast of Chicago(Reprint) Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 173 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73334-8, ISBN: 0-679-73334-5 "Set in a solid urban landscape that may turn dreamlike in the blink of an eye, these stories balance homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with heroic leaps of imagination. "Moving and real and often brilliantly ambitious."--The Los Angeles Times. Reading tour." |
 | | Ploughshares Spring 1998 Stories and Poems by Stuart Dybek, Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 1998 by Ploughshares Books Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-933277-22-9, ISBN: 0-933277-22-9 "Contributors to this issue include: Kim Addonizio, Sandra Alcosser, Nin Andrews, David Baker, Bruce Beasley, Dan Bellm, Nathaniel Bellows, Molly Bendall, Karen Benke, Bruce Bond, David Bottoms, Joel Brouwer, Pam Crow, Michael Cuddihy, Chard deNiord, Sharon Dolin, Stephen Dunn, Laura Fargas, Patricia Fargnoli, Herman Fong, Kenny Fries, Ted Genoways, Debora Greger, Sam Hamill, Jeffrey Harrison, A. Hemon, Colette Inez, Ruth Ellen Kocher, C ..." |
 | | Pitt Poetry Ser. Brass Knuckles by Stuart Dybek ISBN-13: 978-0-608-22231-8, ISBN: 0-608-22231-3 |
 | | Childhood and Other Neighborhoods Stories by Stuart Dybek 212 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26730-2, ISBN: 0-226-26730-X "Stories Stuart Dybek. They shouldered open a warped door and stumbled up a crooked stairway. A string ran ... She smiled, revealing gold teeth, and opened the door wider. “My apprentice, Josef,” Uncle said, introducing him. The boy bowed." |
 | | Paper Lantern Love Stories by Stuart Dybek 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71054-5, ISBN: 0-374-71054-6 "Love Stories Stuart Dybek. turn, she rose from ... Until reading about Sufi mysticism in the introduction, I hadn't realized that the poem Nisa had recited was a prayer to God, rather than the sensual love poem I'd taken it to be. I decided not to ..." |
 | | Streets in Their Own Ink Poems by Stuart Dybek 88 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-7172-4, ISBN: 1-4668-7172-5 "Ryan G. Van Cleave, editor. Allyn & Bacon / Longman, 2002. Contemporary Michigan Poetry. Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry, and Herbert Scott, editors. Wayne State University Press, 1988. Illinois Voices. Kevin Stein and G. E. Murray, editors. University of Illinois Press, 2001. Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America. Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave, editors. University of Iowa Press, 2002. Poets of the New Century. Ro ..." |
 | | The Coast of Chicago Stories by Stuart Dybek 192 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-0637-5, ISBN: 1-4668-0637-0 "I met her in the sheet-music department of Lyon & Healy's music store. ... His songs had great sax breaks, the kind where you roll onto your back and kick your feet in the air while playing. ... Actually, I had taken to wearing the neck strap for my saxophone sort of in the same way that the Mexican guys in the neighborhood wore gold chains dangling outside their T-shirts, except that instead of a cross at the end of my strap I had ..." |
 | | I Sailed with Magellan Stories by Stuart Dybek 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-3144-1, ISBN: 1-4299-3144-2 "Stuart Dybek. feast Mick had cooked up, perhaps days ago. Beneath the table the eyes of Diablo the borzoi glared out like a wolf's from its lair. But, unlike all of ... My girlfriend, mi amiguita, Mirza,” he said by way of introduction. “Mirza, meet mi ..." |
 | | The Coast of Chicago Stories by Stuart Dybek Paperback, 173 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42282-0, ISBN: 0-312-42282-2 "The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek’s classic story collection. A child’s collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder’s inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with ..." |
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