Deborah Eisenberg
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"[Eisenberg] reminds us in every line of certain saving virtues: wit, wild intelligence, great heart, the beauty of the inquiring human voice. If our culture can produce a writer this wonderful, there must be something beautiful about us yet." - George Saunders
Instead of forcing her characters' stories into neat, arbitrary, preordained shapes, [Eisenberg] allows them to grow organically into oddly shaped, asymmetrical narratives-narratives that...
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Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Eisenberg pries open daily life to explore the hidden mechanisms of human behavior.
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Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher...
5) Taj Mahal
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Autora mítica en el panorama del cuento norteamericano, admirada por escritores como Lorrie Moore, John Updike y George Saunders, cada uno de los cuentos de Deborah Eisenberg es un organismo extraño y deslumbrante, capaz, al mismo tiempo, de condensar en sus páginas la complejidad de una novela, cuestionar los límites propios del género y dar cuenta, con ternura y humor, de los imprevistos e imprevisibles desafíos de habitar este mundo.Terriblemente...