0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction

Buy Now

Fabrications - New and Selected Stories (Paperback) Loot Price: R584
Discovery Miles 5 840
Fabrications - New and Selected Stories (Paperback): Pamela Painter

Fabrications - New and Selected Stories (Paperback)

Pamela Painter

Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R584 Discovery Miles 5 840

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 18 - 22 working days

A crowning collection from the award-winning short story writer Pamela Painter. Pamela Painter's short stories have been praised by Margot Livesey for their "wicked intelligence and ruthless humor." In Fabrications, which brings together 7 new and 24 selected stories, characters struggle to avoid the chaos in their lives, but-driven by addictions and appetites-often bring on disaster. Nobody is ordinary in Painter's stories. A burglar can't believe what he is asked to do by the woman whose jewelry he is stealing. Hitchhikers, hell-bent on murder, are thwarted by the miracle of story-telling. A wife can make rooms-and her husband-disappear, but saves the family dog. A young woman insists on the romance of being married in an Elvis Presley chapel, but for the wrong reasons. Fabrications is a testament to Painter's lyric skill and psychological insight across her career. Praise for Previous Books by Pamela Painter "These wonderful stories-about dogs and housewives, scholars and teenagers-vividly demonstrate Painter's wicked intelligence and ruthless humor and her utterly democratic interest in all our faults and foibles. . . . [A] quirky, sexy, irresistible collection."-Margot Livesey "Pamela Painter's stories are warm, wise, funny, and ultimately true to the way we live now-trying to carry on in the face of things breaking down around us. Reading each story is a thrill-for the full-blown lives, astute details, exact metaphors, and pitch-perfect dialogue. She's like a carpenter-nailing it, again and again."-Bobbie Ann Mason "This is fiction of immense beauty, full of wisdom and informed by rare grace."-Steve Yarbrough

General

Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Release date: November 2020
Authors: Pamela Painter
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-3892-4
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Promotions
Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN: 1-4214-3892-5
Barcode: 9781421438924

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Blood's Inner Rhyme - An…
Antjie Krog Paperback R370 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300
Bad Luck Penny
Amy Heydenrych Paperback  (1)
R350 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230
The Boy Who Could Keep A Swan In His…
John Hunt Paperback  (1)
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040
Impossible
Sarah Lotz Paperback R365 Discovery Miles 3 650
Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry Paperback R395 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530
The Wish
Nicholas Sparks Paperback R383 Discovery Miles 3 830
Still Life
Sarah Winman Paperback R363 Discovery Miles 3 630
The Tea Ladies Of St Jude's Hospital
Joanna Nell Paperback R437 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990
A Hibiscus Coast
Nick Mulgrew Paperback R290 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680
One Life - Short Stories
Joanne Hichens, Karina M. Szczurek Paperback R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950
Book Lovers
Emily Henry Paperback  (4)
R275 R225 Discovery Miles 2 250
The Schoolhouse
Sophie Ward Paperback R429 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090

See more

Partners