The Dead Fish Museum
$31.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2010
Summary
How was I supposed to know that any mention of suicide to the phalanx of doctors making Friday rounds would warrant the loss of not only weekend-pass privileges but also the liberty to take a leak in private?
In The Dead Fish Museum, Charles D’Ambrosio delivers eight short stories full of characters who float through their lives and relationships, adrift and apprehensive, tested by failure and strengthened by adversity.
D’Ambrosio’s stories are set against a landscape…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921656347 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921656344 |
| Author: | Charles D'Ambrosio |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
‘These are thoughtful, haunting stories—tantalising snapshots of complex lives and relationships…D’Ambrosio’s writing is acclaimed and worthily so. His clarity of expression and exquisitely crafted sentences make reading his prose at times more like reading poetry.’ * Good Reading *
‘The six stories contain a wry sense of humour and startling moments of love and beauty. One closes the book with a sense of “ah, so this is life”. Verdict: illuminating.’ * Herald Sun *
‘Pretty well every page in The Dead Fish Museum is memorably written…evocative and persuasive.’ * Canberra Times *
‘This excellent collection of stories combines a stylistically minimalist realist mode with dramatic and traumatic subject matter. D’Ambrosio’s view of human nature is the opposite of sunny but some of his characters have small redeeming moments when the fog lifts of the scales fall from their eyes.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘Charles D’Ambrosio’s short stories are powerful studies of outsiders dealing with circumstances that could either give them hope for the future or accelerate their slide. A very rewarding read.’ * Weekend Press NZ *
‘Chabon has said that D’Ambrosio is one of the best short-story writers of contemporary times, and on the strength of this memorable collection, there would be little point disputing this.’ * Australian *
About The Author
Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles D’Ambrosio is the author of two collections of short stories, The Point (a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award) and The Dead Fish Museum (a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award), as well as the essay collection Orphans. His work has appeared frequently in the New Yorker, as well as in Tin House, the Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, A Public Space, and Story. D’Ambrosio has been the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and a USA Rasmuson Fellowship. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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