Fresh complaint : stories /
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, i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2017].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 285 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374203061 0374203067 |