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The paperback of the critically acclaimed story collection from David Means.‘One of the best American collections of the last ten years…This is food for the hungry.’ Jonathan Franzen‘His writing blazes with originality and self-assuredness…A striking new voice in American fiction.’ Dominic Bradbury, The Times‘Worlds collide and spring apart…this sort of thing happens all the time in life, yet I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone bother to express it so devastatingly in literature.’ Julie Myerson, Guardian‘There are stories in this collection that expose the pain of growing up, or the lies within marriage, as well as anything written by anyone, anywhere…The finest collection of stories to appear in years.’ John Burnside, Scotsman‘Means presents the perfect detail at the perfect time. He has a tender, but revealing grasp of human frailty and – that rare thing – a gift for finding and conveying dignity to his characters.’ A.L. Kennedy‘An unsettling, fiercly felt debut collection. His prose can sometimes give you lives in single sentences. In its rigour and controlled sense of experiment, it is reminiscent of some of the best of the more singular American short story writers of the last few decades.’ Tim Adams, Observer‘We care for the characters as if we have known and loved and detested them forever…An exceptional book.’ Michel Faber, Scotland on Sunday
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An extraordinary collection of short stories from the Man Booker prize longlisted author of HYSTOPIA.In the tradition of Raymond Carver or Tobias Wolff, these are all-encompassing stories of the American psyche, of love and loss and of the landscape and its people.A goldfish circles in its bowl, refusing to die, becoming the silent focus of a difficult family life; a pianist loses his talents as he is forced to question the meaning of love and commitment. Through a blend of lyricism and humour, these stories of ordinary human dilemmas take flight and become mythical and universal. David Means is a rare writer who transports us to the heart of what it is to be human.
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A story collection for our time from David Means, the visionary "master of the form" (The Guardian).
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THE SPOT is an old blacksmith shed in which a gang of men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. THE SPOT is a place deep in Riverside Park, along the Hudson River, where two lovers walk with a keen sense that their adultery is about to come to an end. THE SPOT is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the tangled currents of her own tragic story. THE SPOT is a place in a young father's mind where love, fear and responsibility merge in the struggle with his son's potentially devastating diagnosis. THE SPOT lies in the eardrum of a madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbour on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. This highly anticipated collection by internationally acclaimed short story master David Means is exceptional not only in it's language but also in the diversity of the narratives, as he searches out with delicate precision the intricate relationship between immortality and grace.
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At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called HYSTOPIA. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical moment, where President Kennedy is entering his third term in office, and a new federal agency maintains the mental health of returning soldiers by wiping their memories through drugs and therapy, while those beyond help roam at will, re-enacting the atrocities they have witnessed. Outlandish and tender, funny and violent, timely and historical, Hystopia is a wild, gonzo experience about the nature of trauma, homecoming, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
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'One of the most talented writers of short fiction in America. . .' James Wood, New YorkerFollowing the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means returns to his signature form: the short story.Instructions for a Funeral finds a universally admired practitioner in newly expansive territory. Means writes with compassionate precision about fatherhood, marriage, a homeless brother, the nature of addiction, and the death of a friend at the hands of a serial killer nurse. He transmutes a fistfight in Sacramento into a tender, life-long love story; two FBI agents on a stakeout in the 1920s into a tale of predator and prey; a man's funeral instructions into a chronicle of organized crime, real estate ventures, and the destructive force of paranoia.Means's work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, Sherwood Anderson, Denis Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver but his place in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.'David Means is that lucky (and brilliant) writer: a man in full possession of a vision.'- Richard Ford
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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis.Cavanaugh has brought distractions - spasmodic action figures, malformed toy trucks - but they do little to alter the frustration of the sick child screaming, or to alleviate the anxiety of the time spent waiting for 'some exactitude in the form of a diagnosis'.Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
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A story collection for our time from David Means, the visionary "master of the form" (The Guardian).
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"Hans noveller är som svarta diamanter!" Yukiko Duke, Gomorron Sverige David Means skriver noveller. Han skriver så sakligt, så skarpt, så hett att smärtans alla gränser sprängs – vilket bara gör berättelserna ännu känsligare, ännu vackrare. Han jämförs med Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro och andra novellvärldsmästare. Med samlingen Blandade bränder (originaltitel: Assorted Fire Events) – som nu utkommer på Bakhåll i förnämlig översättning av Andreas Vesterlund – fick han sitt stora genombrott i USA. "This is food for the hungry!" skriver Jonathan Franzen.
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David Means skriver noveller. Närvarande, påträngande noveller. Han förflyttar oss rätt in i andra människors tankar och känslor, det må vara en distingerad reklammakare på Manhattan, en beslutsam bankrånare i Ohio eller bara en vanlig jäktad småbarnsförälder mitt i vardagen – alltid samma kristallklara närhet. Bakhåll har tidigare gett ut samlingen Blandade bränder (Assorted Fire Events). Här kommer nu en ny kollektion Means-historier – Stället (The Spot) – i tonsäker svensk översättning. "Det här förklarar varför David Means nämns i samma andetag som John Updike." INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY "Så intelligent skrivet att det gör ont. Detta är tidlöst." NEW YORK TIMES Means berättar till exempel om det välregisserade bankrånet där inget ska kunna gå fel eftersom varje kommando, varje gest är genomtänkt och samordnad. Carson har hoppat över disken och är den som håller i säcken som i rasande fart fylls med pengar. Donnie är den som skriker åt bankkunderna att ligga ned på golvet och för allt i världen inte spela hjältar. Berättaren själv står vid fönstret och håller både gatan utanför och hela banklokalen under uppsikt med sin alerta split vision-blick. Men sannolikheten för att den fatala Missen ändå ska hända är aldrig negligerbar för under loppet av de få sekunder som tickar förbi hinner så kolossalt många vanskliga faktorer fluktuera. Tyst-alarm-faktorn, hopblandnings-faktorn, missriktat-hjältemod-faktorn... "Stället" i novellen med samma namn är en plats som Bone påvisar långt ute i sjön. En krusning på ytan avslöjar att det är där dricksvattnet sugs in. Vill man förgifta hela Cleveland är det där man ska hälla giftet. Bone är hallick åt Meg och fixar torskar åt henne, det är vanligen män med byxor med pressveck, småföretagare med framgångsrik firma och irriterande gott om pengar, och det händer att Meg avslöjar vad hon gör med dem, åtminstone vad hon gjort med dem som hittats döda efteråt. "Stället" är också en plats långt nedanför Niagarafallen där vattnet rör sig i en nästan omärklig virvel och ibland står helt stilla. Där flyter kropparna upp. Förr eller senare. "Hans noveller är som svarta diamanter!" YUKIKO DUKE I GOMORRON SVERIGE SVT OM MEANS FÖRRA BOK: BLANDADE BRÄNDER