"What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming Americans," winner
of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms
Peter LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original
writers working in the short fiction genre today. In this
collection of eleven stories, LaSalle explores how everyday life
for many--an FBI agent, a study-abroad student, a drug dealer's
chic girlfriend, a trio of Broadway playwrights, among others--can
often take on something much larger than that, almost the texture
of a haunting dream. Marked by stylistic daring and a rare lyricism
in language, this is intense, thoroughly moving fiction that probes
the contemporary American psyche, portraying it in all its
frequently painful sadness and also its brave and unflagging hope.
"I've always believed that as a short story writer Peter LaSalle
has been in the same class as Donald Barthelme and Joyce Carol
Oates in the avant-garde of American fiction writers, and now,
reading his new collection, "What I Found Out About Her," I am more
than confirmed in that belief: indeed, his sophisticated and highly
controlled formal experimentation, which is the sparkling core of
his style, now flows with such masterly ease that he can be said to
be in a class of his own, at the forefront of American creators of
original prose." --Zulfikar Ghose, author of "The Triple Mirror of
the Self"
"Peter LaSalle's stories, set in wonderfully various
settings--Buenos Aires, New York, Paris, Chicago--are rich in their
delineation of our private lives and loves, and in those moments in
which, by ourselves or with others, we live most deeply. These
haunting tales are shrewdly original, disarmingly complex,
and--always, always, since LaSalle is one of our finest
storytellers--as beautifully crafted as they are memorable." --Jay
Neugeboren, author of "You Are My Heart and Other Stories"
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