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´One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure´ George Saunders

From a master of the short story, this is a beguiling collection of nineteen tales about growing up, wising up and falling in love

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´One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure´ George Saunders

Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the short story

The Start of Something is a visionary work following the lovelorn beatniks, hard-boiled gangsters and jaded academics of America, journeying through a haze of drugs, dreams and lucid memory. Seductive and freewheeling, each story glittering with the found poetry of the street, this is the definitive introduction to a life´s work by a writer who has re-enchanted short fiction with every new collection.

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"One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure" George Saunders

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Described by the Atlantic as ´one of America´s living masters of the short story´, Stuart Dybek has been accoladed on all fronts, receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, a PEN/Malamud Prize, a Lannan Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and four O. Henry Prizes. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared widely in journals such as Harper´s, Poetry, Tin House, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker.

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