Research Catalog
The secret habit of sorrow : stories
- Title
- The secret habit of sorrow : stories / Victoria Patterson.
- Author
- Patterson, Victoria
- Publication
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-5128 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 213 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Patterson is on a mission to bring our ghosts out of the shadows. These stories shine with empathy and find the humanness in all our struggles." --Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life There's a pitch-perfect blend of linguistic dexterity, emotional wisdom, and wry observation in The Secret Habit of Sorrow.
- "There's a pitch-perfect blend of linguistic dexterity, emotional wisdom, and wry observation in The Secret Habit of Sorrow. The characters in these stories feel like people you know, their struggles real. Victoria Patterson's prose has a Denis-Johnson refiltered-through-Raymond-Carver-vibe, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. Whether it be the ties between women and their own and each other's infants, the struggles of parenthood, or the trials that come with excessive drinking and drug abuse, Patterson has an amazing ability to convey relationships and how our bonds can both save and destroy us."
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Contents
- How to lose -- Vandals -- Johnny Hitman -- Trees -- Half-truth -- Confetti -- Paris -- Lowlife -- Dogs -- Parking far away -- We know things -- Fledglings -- DC -- Visitations -- Appetite -- Nobody's business.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-5128
- ISBN
- 9781640090521
- 1640090525
- LCCN
- 2017058815
- 40028370180
- OCLC
- 1003757916
- Author
- Patterson, Victoria, author.
- Title
- The secret habit of sorrow : stories / Victoria Patterson.
- Publisher
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, [2018]
- Edition
- First paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028370180
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-5128