Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories

Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories - Paperback

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Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories - Paperback

Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories - Paperback

by Dagoberto Gilb
$16.00
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Book Overview

Before the End, After the Beginning is a personal and honest collection of ten exquisite stories from Dagoberto Gilb. The pieces come in the wake of a stroke Gilb suffered at his home in Austin, Texas, in 2009, and a majority of the stories were written over many months of recovery. The result is a powerful and triumphant collection that tackles common themes of mortality and identity and describes the American experience in a raw, authentic vernacular unique to Gilb.

These ten stories take readers throughout the American West and Southwest, from Los Angeles and Albuquerque to El Paso and Austin. Gilb covers territory familiar to some of his earlier work--a mother and son's relationship in Southern California in the story 'Uncle Rock' or a character looking to shed his mixed up past in 'The Last Time I Saw Junior'--while dealing with themes of mortality and limitation that have arisen during his own illness. Confronting issues of masculinity, sexuality, and mortality, Gilb has recovered and produced what may be his most extraordinary achievement to date.
ISBN9780802145994
Author Dagoberto Gilb
PublisherGrove Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Dagoberto Gilb

Dagoberto Gilb is the author of three books from UNM Press, The Magic of Blood, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the anthology Hecho en Tejas, winner of the PEN/Southwest Book Award, and A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands, winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein/Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in both the New Yorker and Harper's, and his work has been featured in Best American Essays and O. Henry Prize Stories.

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