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ISBN10: 0345530381
ISBN13: 9780345530387
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Oct 2 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Story Prize, Story Prize
ISBN13: 9780345530387
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Oct 2 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Story Prize, Story Prize
In these superbly disquieting (The New York Times Book Review) stories, lost, fragile, and searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland--from the award-winning author of Among the Missing.
Powerful and disturbing.--The Washington Post
Powerful and disturbing.--The Washington Post
Eerily beautiful.--Boston Sunday Globe
[Chaon is] a literary force.--The Philadelphia Inquirer A WASHINGTON POST AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Includes an exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Emma Straub In twelve chilling stories, Dan Chaon introduces us to characters who have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection--and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes A father's life is upended by his son's night terrors--and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of empty-nest syndrome; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes--on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house. The stories in Stay Awake feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm--in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.
[Chaon is] a literary force.--The Philadelphia Inquirer A WASHINGTON POST AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Includes an exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Emma Straub In twelve chilling stories, Dan Chaon introduces us to characters who have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection--and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes A father's life is upended by his son's night terrors--and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of empty-nest syndrome; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes--on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house. The stories in Stay Awake feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm--in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.
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