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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618386254
ISBN-13
9780618386253
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72615254
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fun with Problems
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
2009-013748
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22
Reviews
"In the long form or the short, American fiction has no greater master than Robert Stone. These stories burn with his dark and incandescent magic." -- Madison Smartt Bell, author ofAll Souls Rising "Stone's evocative prose treads through the murky waters of dead dreams and waning hopes, bringing out the pathetic and nasty side of people warped by addiction, sex, violence and time...Stone doesn't just let his wounded characters whimper in the corner. He turns them loose on a world hard enough to knock them down but indifferent enough to not care about them once they're gone." --Publishers Weekly, starred "[Stone] mines the depravity of weirdos whose success resides in having not died by the end of the story...The stories are witty and diverse and are all unified by some element of brokenness...Each character comes closer and closer to truth, but heartbreakingly, never quite turns the corner. You know they are on the right track though and that makes suffering with these characters enjoyable." --Booklist "Once again, Robert Stone displays his tense mastery of narrative, inexplicably fine dialogue, and what is perhaps the most sublime sense of any living writer for beginnings and endings. He is, simply, one of our best." --Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things "Stone's pared, precise lines take on the lyrical authority of morality tales...There's a dark humor at play here, the laughter of the rehab houses implied in the title. Few other writers could use a phrase like civic poetry so conversationally and have it be so cogent. -- Library Journal, "In the long form or the short, American fiction has no greater master than Robert Stone. These stories burn with his dark and incandescent magic." -- Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls Rising "Stone''s evocative prose treads through the murky waters of dead dreams and waning hopes, bringing out the pathetic and nasty side of people warped by addiction, sex, violence and time...Stone doesn''t just let his wounded characters whimper in the corner. He turns them loose on a world hard enough to knock them down but indifferent enough to not care about them once they''re gone." -- Publishers Weekly , starred "[Stone] mines the depravity of weirdos whose success resides in having not died by the end of the story...The stories are witty and diverse and are all unified by some element of brokenness...Each character comes closer and closer to truth, but heartbreakingly, never quite turns the corner. You know they are on the right track though and that makes suffering with these characters enjoyable." -- Booklist "Once again, Robert Stone displays his tense mastery of narrative, inexplicably fine dialogue, and what is perhaps the most sublime sense of any living writer for beginnings and endings. He is, simply, one of our best." --Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things "Stone''s pared, precise lines take on the lyrical authority of morality tales...There''s a dark humor at play here, the laughter of the rehab houses implied in the title. Few other writers could use a phrase like civic poetry so conversationally and have it be so cogent." -- Library Journal "In this ironically titled collection, prize-winning novelist Robert Stone delivers insightful and at times wickedly funny portraits of troubled characters sowing the seeds of their own downfall." -- Shelf Awareness "Vintage Stone. Enough said." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred "Elemental, a matter of life and death in the most literal sense...like all of Stone''s most powerful writing, suggest that the answer is available to us only in fragments, if it is available at all." -- Los Angeles Times "[A] killer collection...Stone is a master at picking apart messy lives in clean, precise language." -- Oregonian "Stark and beautiful...one of the best pieces of fiction Stone has published...it''s impossible not to be impressed by Stone''s audacity, steel-eyed honesty, and cold and sometimes bizarre sense of humor...an enlightening [read] and hard to forget...[Stone''s] an American master" -- NPR.org "Robert Stone provides proof positive in his long-awaited story collection Fun With Problems that this master of the heart's dark matter--boozy onenight stands, sobering moments of grace, volcanic silences, shouted regrets--remains in diabolically good form." -- Elle "Stone is a master...No worter today is as grimly polished, as icily adept, and Hemingwayesquely lean and Hawthornely morally infused...impossible not to finish." -- Dallas Morning News "If you aren''t reading anything by Robert Stone then you better get with it." -- Minx Society "Fraught with rough poetry." -- People "The prose...is stylish, specific, savage and often darkly comic...The writer pays his reader the deep compliment of refusing to simplify his creations. They are as flawed and sophisticated and complex and conflicted and naughty and tempted and contradictory and brutal and surprising as readers themselves...Fun With Problems is a book for grown-ups, for people prepared to absorb the news of the world that it announces, for people both grateful and a little uneasy in finding a writer brave enough to be the bearer." -- The New York Times Book Review "[A] superb collection of short stories...Stone''s prose style is exquisitely hard-edged." -- The Providence Journal "...intense and finely carved...We follow Stone''s characters all the way to the botto, "In the long form or the short, American fiction has no greater master than Robert Stone. These stories burn with his dark and incandescent magic." -- Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls Rising "Stone''s evocative prose treads through the murky waters of dead dreams and waning hopes, bringing out the pathetic and nasty side of people warped by addiction, sex, violence and time...Stone doesn''t just let his wounded characters whimper in the corner. He turns them loose on a world hard enough to knock them down but indifferent enough to not care about them once they''re gone." -- Publishers Weekly , starred "[Stone] mines the depravity of weirdos whose success resides in having not died by the end of the story...The stories are witty and diverse and are all unified by some element of brokenness...Each character comes closer and closer to truth, but heartbreakingly, never quite turns the corner. You know they are on the right track though and that makes suffering with these characters enjoyable." -- Booklist "Once again, Robert Stone displays his tense mastery of narrative, inexplicably fine dialogue, and what is perhaps the most sublime sense of any living writer for beginnings and endings. He is, simply, one of our best." --Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things "Stone''s pared, precise lines take on the lyrical authority of morality tales...There''s a dark humor at play here, the laughter of the rehab houses implied in the title. Few other writers could use a phrase like civic poetry so conversationally and have it be so cogent." -- Library Journal "In this ironically titled collection, prize-winning novelist Robert Stone delivers insightful and at times wickedly funny portraits of troubled characters sowing the seeds of their own downfall." -- Shelf Awareness "Vintage Stone. Enough said." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred "Elemental, a matter of life and death in the most literal sense...like all of Stone''s most powerful writing, suggest that the answer is available to us only in fragments, if it is available at all." -- Los Angeles Times "[A] killer collection...Stone is a master at picking apart messy lives in clean, precise language." -- Oregonian "Stark and beautiful...one of the best pieces of fiction Stone has published...it''s impossible not to be impressed by Stone''s audacity, steel-eyed honesty, and cold and sometimes bizarre sense of humor...an enlightening [read] and hard to forget...[Stone''s] an American master" -- NPR.org "Robert Stone provides proof positive in his long-awaited story collection Fun With Problems that this master of the heart's dark matter-boozy onenight stands, sobering moments of grace, volcanic silences, shouted regrets-remains in diabolically good form." -- Elle "Stone is a master...No worter today is as grimly polished, as icily adept, and Hemingwayesquely lean and Hawthornely morally infused...impossible not to finish." -- Dallas Morning News "If you aren''t reading anything by Robert Stone then you better get with it." -- Minx Society "Fraught with rough poetry." -- People "The prose…is stylish, specific, savage and often darkly comic…The writer pays his reader the deep compliment of refusing to simplify his creations. They are as flawed and sophisticated and complex and conflicted and naughty and tempted and contradictory and brutal and surprising as readers themselves…Fun With Problems is a book for grown-ups, for people prepared to absorb the news of the world that it announces, for people both grateful and a little uneasy in f
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" ( Los Angeles Times ) . The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length--some are almost novellas, others no more than a page--but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; abored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone's great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses--by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive--that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our very selves., Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is an undisputed master of the contemporary short story. The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length, but all share Stone's signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has been his skeleton key to the human soul., In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" ( Los Angeles Times ) . The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length--some are almost novellas, others no more than a page--but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone's great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses--by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive--that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our very selves.
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PS3569.T6418F86 2010
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