Like Youd Understand, Anyway : Stories

English

ISBN: 0307265218

EAN: 9780307265210

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 01/31/2008

Synopsis: Following his widely acclaimed Project Xand Love and HydrogenHere is the effect of these two books, wrote the Chicago Tribune:A reader finishes them buzzing with aweJim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade. Like Youd Understand, Anywayreaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, caught in the star-crossed orbits of their joint mission. Two Texas high school football players at the top of their food chain, soliciting their fathers attention by leveling everything before them on the field. And the rational and compassionate chief executioner of Paris, whose occupation, during the height of the Terror, eats away at all he holds dear. Brimming with irony, compassion, and withering humor, these eleven stories are at once eerily pertinent and dazzlingly exotic, and they showcase the work of a protean, prodigiously gifted writer at the height of his form. Reading Jim Shepard, according to Michael Chabon, is like encountering our national literature in microcosm. From the Hardcover edition.

Awards: National Book Awards – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

Like Youd Understand, Anyway : Stories

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.99 inches

Width: 5.73 inches

Length: 8.63 inches

Weight: 13.05 oz

Pages: 224