Deborah Eisenberg – författare

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.

At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront the most disturbing truths about ourselves—from our intimate lives as lovers, parents, and children, to our equally troubling roles as citizens on a violent, terrifying planet.

Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, her first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters—a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors shocked to read a book about their past; a privileged young man who unexpectedly falls into a love affair with a human rights worker caught up in an all-consuming quest that he doesn't understand.

In Eisenberg’s world, the forces of money, sex, and power cannot be escaped, and the force of history, whether confronted or denied, cannot be evaded. No one writes better about time, tragedy and grief, and the indifferent but beautiful universe around us.

Discover the "exquisitely distilled stories" of Deborah Eisenberg, a master of contemporary American literature, in this definitive collection.Since her acclaimed debut in 1986, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to crafting short stories that "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life," as recognized by the prestigious MacArthur Foundation. The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg brings together the author''s four celebrated collections: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006).Hailed as "concentrated bursts of perfection" by The Times (London) and praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as the work of "one of America''s finest writers," these twenty-seven stories showcase Eisenberg''s remarkable talent for capturing the complexities and nuances of modern life with precision, insight, and emotional depth. From the streets of New York to the intricacies of relationships, each story is a testament to Eisenberg''s unparalleled ability to illuminate the human experience through her incisive and compelling prose.