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Assorted Fire Events

Stories

By David Means

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| Paperback | 9780007137565

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The paperback of the critically acclaimed story collection from David Means. 'One of the best American collections of the last ten years...This is food for the hungry.' Jonathan Franzen 'His writing blazes with originality and self-assuredness...A striking new voice in American fiction.' Dominic BraContinue

The paperback of the critically acclaimed story collection from David Means. 'One of the best American collections of the last ten years...This is food for the hungry.' Jonathan Franzen 'His writing blazes with originality and self-assuredness...A striking new voice in American fiction.' Dominic Bradbury, The Times 'Worlds collide and spring apart...this sort of thing happens all the time in life, yet I don't think I've ever seen anyone bother to express it so devastatingly in literature.' Julie Myerson, Guardian 'There are stories in this collection that expose the pain of growing up, or the lies within marriage, as well as anything written by anyone, anywhere...The finest collection of stories to appear in years.' John Burnside, Scotsman 'Means presents the perfect detail at the perfect time. He has a tender, but revealing grasp of human frailty and - that rare thing - a gift for finding and conveying dignity to his characters.' A.L. Kennedy 'An unsettling, fiercly felt debut collection. His prose can sometimes give you lives in single sentences. In its rigour and controlled sense of experiment, it is reminiscent of some of the best of the more singular American short story writers of the last few decades.' Tim Adams, Observer 'We care for the characters as if we have known and loved and detested them forever...An exceptional book.' Michel Faber, Scotland on Sunday

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  • Grim reaper

    Assorted Fire Events David Means 165pp, Fourth Estate, £10 The penultimate story in David Means's extremely rewarding first book is the one that gives the collection its title. In it there is a paragraph that begins like this: "One morning in Rochest ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Out of the wreckage

    Assorted Fire Events David Means Fourth Estate £10, pp165 David Means begins a story called 'What I Hope For' with the sentence: 'I don't want anyone to die in my stories any more.' It's the seventh, and shortest and most cheerful, story in an unsett ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 176 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0007137567
  • ISBN-13: 9780007137565
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
  • Pub date: Mar 03, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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