Fresh complaint : stories /
Eugenides, Jeffrey,
Fresh complaint : stories / Jeffrey Eugenides. - First edition. - 285 pages ; 22 cm
Complainers -- Air mail -- Baster -- Early music -- Timeshare -- Find the bad guy -- The oracular vulva -- Capricious gardens -- Great experiment -- Fresh complaint.
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
9780374203061 0374203067
2017007576
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
PS3555 .U4 / A6 2017
Fresh complaint : stories / Jeffrey Eugenides. - First edition. - 285 pages ; 22 cm
Complainers -- Air mail -- Baster -- Early music -- Timeshare -- Find the bad guy -- The oracular vulva -- Capricious gardens -- Great experiment -- Fresh complaint.
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
9780374203061 0374203067
2017007576
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
PS3555 .U4 / A6 2017