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Through the Safety Net - stories (Paperback, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed) Loot Price: R425

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Through the Safety Net - stories (Paperback, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed): Charles Baxter

Through the Safety Net - stories (Paperback, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed)

Charles Baxter

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

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Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.

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.

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Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	September 1998
Authors:	Charles Baxter
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
Edition:	1st Vintage contemporaries ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-77649-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	0-679-77649-4
Barcode:	9780679776499