The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg · 2010
Four decades of stories about Americans adrift. Eisenberg writes confusion better than anyone.
The case against
Everyone in Eisenberg talks the same way: dazed, halting, trailing off mid-thought, whether teenager or aging actor. Stories run forty pages, omit the connective scenes on purpose, and expect rereading before you have finished reading them once. Disorientation is the method; often enough it is also just the result.
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