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Through the Safety Net: Stories
A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her--their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare artistry and feeling.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Sep 29th, 1998
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.19in - 0.64in - 0.52lb
- EAN: 9780679776499
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Literary• Family Life - Marriage & Divorce
About the Author
CHARLES BAXTER is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There's Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net. His stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories. He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
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What people are saying
Novelist, essayist. Pronounced "Row": a British argument. He/him. My new novel, THE NEW EARTH, is coming in March 2023! Preorders and info at https://t.co/kpJTThnwIm
@DeanBakopoulos As you know, lots of Charles Baxter stories are like this: "Westland," "The Disappeared," "The Next Building I Plan to Bomb"
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Good evening! My 28th book of the year is Charles Baxter’s story collection HARMONY OF THE WORLD. I find myself at a loss for commentary. The stories are good. It’s Charles Baxter. Of course the stories are good. https://t.co/bOlktTyc4R
PEN/Faulkner champions the breadth and power of fiction in America.
"Some of the greatest stories often read like poems. I like it when a lot of pressure is put on the language and it begins to sail off in a particular direction. I like stories that embody a kind of silence as well." – Charles Baxter #penmalamudaward
What people are saying
Novelist, essayist. Pronounced "Row": a British argument. He/him. My new novel, THE NEW EARTH, is coming in March 2023! Preorders and info at https://t.co/kpJTThnwIm
@DeanBakopoulos As you know, lots of Charles Baxter stories are like this: "Westland," "The Disappeared," "The Next Building I Plan to Bomb"
Christian. Writer: FIELD GUIDE TO LONELY BIRDS (Red Bird Chapbooks, 03-02-23), ENDLESS BUILDING. Tabletop gamer. Caretaker. Negligible.
Good evening! My 28th book of the year is Charles Baxter’s story collection HARMONY OF THE WORLD. I find myself at a loss for commentary. The stories are good. It’s Charles Baxter. Of course the stories are good. https://t.co/bOlktTyc4R