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Cries for Help, Various : Stories by Padgett Powell (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Cries for Help, Various: Stories by Powell is a trade paperback book published by CATAPULT in 2015. This book is a work of fiction written by Padgett Powell and contains 200 pages of short stories with a humorous and satirical tone. The book belongs to the genre of literary fiction with topics such as lawyers and criminals. The book has a dimension of 8.2 inches in length, 5.6 inches in width, and 0.5 inches in height. It weighs 9.4 Oz. The book is in English and has a Book Title of "Cries for Help, Various: Stories."

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCATAPULT

ISBN-101936787318

ISBN-139781936787319

eBay Product ID (ePID)211205496

Product Key Features

Book TitleCries for Help, Various : Stories

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Satire, Literary, Humorous / General

Publication Year2015

GenreFiction

AuthorPadgett Powell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.4 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-933695

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisNamed a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Vanity Fair "Rifles through fear, identity, meaning, and cultural memory in forty-four short, surreal stories." -- Vanity Fair "By turns moving, funny, and maddening.... very much in the key of Donald Barthelme." --The New York Times Book Review "Somehow both grounded and absurd, each one of the stories trying get at that heart of the confusion and sadness at the core of contemporary life." -- VICE From the highly acclaimed author of Edisto and The Interrogative Mood , Padgett Powell's new collection of stories, Cries for Help, Various, follows his mentor Donald Barthelme's advice that "wacky mode" must "break their hearts." The surrealistic and comical terrain of most of the forty-four stories here is grounded by a real preoccupation with longing, fear, work, loneliness, and cultural nostalgia. These universal concerns are given exhilarating life by way of Powell's "wit, his . . . dazzling turns of phrase" (Scott Spencer). Padgett Powell's language is both lofty and low-down, his tone cranky and heartfelt, exuberant and inconsolable. His characters rebel against convention and ambition, hoping to maintain their very sanity by doing so. Even the most hilarious or fantastical stories in Cries for Help, Various ring gloriously, poignantly, true., Padgett Powell's third collection, "Cries for Help, Various," includes forty-four stories, some very short, that follow his mentor Donald Barthelme's advice that 'the wacky mode must break readers' hearts.' The surrealistic and comical terrain of most of the stories is grounded in their real preoccupation with longing, fear, work, loneliness, and cultural nostalgia. The language and thinking is lofty and low, cranky and heartfelt, exuberant and inconsolable. Powell's characters are rebels against convention whose concerns are less for independence than for the maintenance of sanity, the romance of giving up.

LC Classification NumberPS3566.O8328A6 2015