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Dream of Old Leaves by Bret Lott (1999, Trade Paperback)
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Title: A Dream Of Old Leaves. Number of Pages: 144. Author: Lott, Bret (Author). Weight: 0.44 lbs. Publication Date: 1999-01-01. Publisher: WASHINGTON SQUARE.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWashington Square Press
ISBN-100671038214
ISBN-139780671038212
eBay Product ID (ePID)889944
Product Key Features
Book TitleDream of Old Leaves
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Family Life, General, Literary
Publication Year1999
GenreFiction
AuthorBret Lott
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight5.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-012620
ReviewsSan Francisco Chronicle A Dream of Old Leaves is a haunting, memorable collection...immediately sympathetic, highly resonant, and sometimes quite funny....Lott makes the mundane sing....He forces a reader, through the accumulation of detail, to feel along with his characters, to perceive one's own truth...., James Atlas Bret Lott writes about men and women, work and marriage, with a clear-eyed sense of the ways in which we betray -- and redeem -- ourselves., The New York Times Book Review Probing beneath the smooth surface of suburban domesticity, Mr. Lott's spare, emotionally restrained fictions bring to mind a minimalist John Cheever....The best of these domestic tales are very good indeed., The New York Times Book ReviewProbing beneath the smooth surface of suburban domesticity, Mr. Lott's spare, emotionally restrained fictions bring to mind a minimalist John Cheever....The best of these domestic tales are very good indeed., The Boston Globe Bret Lott writes about the ordinariness of life with...delicacy and subtlety...these stories are...haunting in their simplicity and sensitivity., Washington Times These are subtle, tightly told tales, often marked by humor and compellingly odd characters...carefully constructed and satisfying., Washington TimesThese are subtle, tightly told tales, often marked by humor and compellingly odd characters...carefully constructed and satisfying., The Chicago Tribune Scrupulously crafted stories....Their prose is stripped of adornment but not of music, and is capable of generating a good deal of strong emotion!, James AtlasBret Lott writes about men and women, work and marriage, with a clear-eyed sense of the ways in which we betray -- and redeem -- ourselves., Richmond News Leader Lott is almost a miniaturist in his ability to evoke powerful emotions from stories that are, at times, merely slivers of human experience....It takes a consummate artist to bring off the kind of effect Lott seems so effortlessly to achieve., Richmond News LeaderLott is almost a miniaturist in his ability to evoke powerful emotions from stories that are, at times, merely slivers of human experience....It takes a consummate artist to bring off the kind of effect Lott seems so effortlessly to achieve.
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SynopsisBret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy's first bad dream brings his father back to his own childhood nights when danger lurked beneath the bed; in the California desert at night two brothers in a pickup tune into radio stations from distant places, interrupted by sudden bursts of static; estranged suburban friends become good neighbors again in the course of thwarting two thieves.Lott's previous novels,The Man Who Owned VermontandA Stranger's House,established him as "one of the strongest voices to come along in some time"(The San Francisco Chronicle).A Dream of Old Leavesstakes out his place in the landscape of new American fiction., Bret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy's first bad dream brings his father back to his own childhood nights when danger lurked beneath the bed; in the California desert at night two brothers in a pickup tune into radio stations from distant places, interrupted by sudden bursts of static; estranged suburban friends become good neighbors again in the course of thwarting two thieves. Lott's previous novels, The Man Who Owned Vermont and A Stranger's House, established him as "one of the strongest voices to come along in some time" (The San Francisco Chronicle). A Dream of Old Leaves stakes out his place in the landscape of new American fiction.
LC Classification NumberPS3562.O784D74
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