The disappeared : stories /
A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous co-dependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Summary: | A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous co-dependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both literal and figurative, lives and loves that are cut short, the vanishing of one's youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin, from the clamor of a crowded restaurant to the cigarette at a lonely kitchen table, Andrew Porter captures each of these relationships mid-flight, every individual life punctuated by loss and beauty and need. The Disappeared reaffirms the undeniable artistry of a contemporary master of the form. |
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| Item Description: | "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 218 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593534304 0593534301 |