Gryphon: New and Selected Stories - Paperback

$19.00

Gryphon: New and Selected Stories - Paperback

Name: Gryphon: New and Selected Stories - Paperback
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SKU: 9780307739520
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by Charles Baxter

$19.00

Book Overview

A New York Times Notable Book from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)

By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, this collection--sixteen classics with seven new stories--proves William Maxwell's assertion that "nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself."

Whether friends or strangers, the characters in these stories share a desire--sometimes muted and sometimes fierce--to break through the fragile glass of convention. In the title story, a substitute teacher walks into a new classroom, draws an outsized tree on the blackboard on a whim, and rewards her students by reading their fortunes using a Tarot deck. In each of the stories we see the delicate tension between what we want to believe and what we need to believe.

"A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives ... Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable." --The New York Times Book Review

ISBN	9780307739520
Author	Charles Baxter
Publisher	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	February 2012
Language	ENG- English
Pages	416
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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