A Girl with a Monkey: New and Selected Stories

Leonard Michaels

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Fiction.A Lost Angeles Times Best Fiction Title of 2000. Finalist, 2000 Bay Area Book Reviewers Fiction Award. Brilliant... Anyone concerned with the American short story should read and know these stories.... Other American writers have tried to write stories like these, but Leonard Michaels got there first and has done it better than almost anyone else.--Charles Baxter, San Francisco Chronicle

Michaels, one of the most highly regarded contemporary American literary figures and widely read by the discerning public, has long been regarded as a master of the short story. His stature can only be enhanced by this gathering of the best of his previous work as well as new stories, all of them written within the period of the early 1960s through the 1990s. Love and sexuality are the twin themes he continues to mine, and the specific situations he creates to explore these themes pinpoint in the sheerest of prose the absolute truth about relationships. Michaels's trenchant, direct, and lyrical style, with not one word wasted, works as a tight springboard for conveying his vast knowledge about why we love who we love. No library's short story collection is complete without this career-defining compilation.--Brad Hooper, Booklist

Book Details

Publisher: Mercury House
Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2000
Pages: 238
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.49in - 5.55in - 0.74in - 0.73lb
EAN: 9781562791209
Categories: • Short Stories (single author)

About the Author

Michaels, Leonard: - Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) is the author of Sylvia, The Men's Room, To Feel These Things, Going Places, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, Shuffle, and, most recently, Time Out of Mind. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Mark Richardson

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3 years

Author of Malibu Burns, The Sun Casts No Shadow, Hunt for the Troll. “If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.” Salvador Dali

A Girl With a Monkey by Leonard Michaels is an excellent short story collection. The title story and “Murders” are classics. A lot of the others are more artsy and less narratively accessible, but I really enjoyed them as well. The stories are sexy. https://t.co/PPsKecKWzI

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