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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

Baxter, Charles

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 030773952X
ISBN13: 9780307739520
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 14 2012
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

A New York Times Notable Book from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and one of our most gifted writers (Chicago Tribune)

By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, this collection--sixteen classics with seven new stories--proves William Maxwell's assertion that nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself.

Whether friends or strangers, the characters in these stories share a desire--sometimes muted and sometimes fierce--to break through the fragile glass of convention. In the title story, a substitute teacher walks into a new classroom, draws an outsized tree on the blackboard on a whim, and rewards her students by reading their fortunes using a Tarot deck. In each of the stories we see the delicate tension between what we want to believe and what we need to believe.

A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives ... Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable. --The New York Times Book Review

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