Stay awake : stories / Dan Chaon.
Publication details: New York : Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, 2012.Edition: Trade paperback editionDescription: 281 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780345530387
- 0345530381
- Short stories. Selections
- 813/.54 23
- PS3553.H277 S73 2012b
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Tavares Public Library | Adult Fiction | Adult Fiction | F Chaon | Available | 32291001343802 |
Includes a reader's guide.
The bees -- Patrick Lane, flabbergasted -- Stay awake -- Long delayed, always expected -- I wake up -- To Psychic Underworld -- St. Dismas -- Thinking of you in your time of sorrow -- Slowly we open our eyes -- Shepherdess -- Take this, Brother, may it serve you well -- The Farm, the gold, the lily-white hands.
In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection—and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations.
Dan Chaon’s stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm—in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.
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