Description
Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed through a fish-eye lens-slightly distorted and off-center, yet recognizable and often familiar.
14 Stories is part comedy, part tragedy, part social comment and part spoof. But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.
Author: Stephen Dixon
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 09/01/2002
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.24h x 5.52w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9780801872051
ISBN10: 0801872057
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Stephen Dixon has published more than 125 short stories and is the award-winning author of over a dozen books, including the collections Long Made Short and All Gone, available from Johns Hopkins.