American Estrangement

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American Estrangement
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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h218 x 150mm - 192pg
10 Aug 2021 US
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9780393541236
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Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain. " His new collection of stories-some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the Best American Short Stories-is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles-a son' s fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction-even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic, political, and racial forces of American society. Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy, American Estrangement is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh' s reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers.
"[An] excellent new collection. . . [Sayrafiezadeh] writes with a veteran' s swagger and discipline. . . [T]he collection joins a list that includes Leonard Michaels' s "I Would Have Saved Them if I Could," Lorrie Moore' s "Like Life" and Charles D' Ambrosio' s "The Dead Fish Museum" as a second book of stories that exceeds and expands upon the promise of the first, confirming the writer as a major, committed practitioner of a difficult form. " -- Andrew Martin - The New York Times Book Review "Despite its array of different settings, American Estrangement is thematically and formally cohesive. In addition to its treatment of disconnection and precarity, there is a compelling combination of realism and allegory, and some dystopian flourishes - features that have inspired comparisons with the work of George Saunders. " -- Arin Keeble - The Times Literary Supplement "A dark and exhilarating collection. " -- David L. Ulin - The Los Angeles Times "Skillful and controlled. . . [The stories in American Estrangement] speak, at times quite powerfully, to an overriding feeling of cultural and personal loneliness. " -- Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal "[A] stellar new collection. . . Sayrafiezadeh is a master. . . His prose has a rhythm that is startlingly original and an intense quirkiness that catches you unaware. " -- Elaine Margolin - Los Angeles Review of Books
Said Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. He is the author of a memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, and a story collection, Brief Encounters with the Enemy. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Cullman Center Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney' s. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College and lives in New York City.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780393541236
Published: 10 Aug 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 218mm
Width: 150mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 307g
Pages: 192

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