Pleasure Palace: New and Selected Stories
Marian Thurm
(Author)
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Description
At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empathy for her characters, Thurm's acclaimed work has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories and numerous other anthologies. This volume, selected from her four short story collections--with stories written over a span of 42 years--shows Thurm's remarkable craft, never failing to reveal both her emotional acuity and her pitch-dark humor.
Product Details
Price
$19.00
$17.67
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Publish Date
May 25, 2021
Pages
268
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.1 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781953002044
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Marian Thurm is the author of seven other novels and five short story collections, including Today Is Not Your Day, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her novel The Clairvoyant was a New York Times Notable Book. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, The Southampton Review, and many other magazines, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories, and numerous other anthologies. Her books have been translated into Japanese, Swedish, Dutch, German, and Italian. She has taught creative writing at Yale University and Barnard College, in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence, and at the Yale Writers' Workshop.
Reviews
"[An] unsparing, ironic sensibility and killer eye for detail...Though her view of things is almost unremittingly dark, Thurm is always ready with a wisecrack to take the edge off."