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You should pity us instead : stories
- Title
- You should pity us instead : stories / Amy Gustine.
- Author
- Gustine, Amy, 1970-
- Publication
- Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2016]
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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 16-1381 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 222 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- ""Amy Gustine's You Should Pity Us Instead is a devastating, funny, and astonishingly frank collection of stories. Gustine can be brutally honest about the murky calculations, secret dreams and suppressed malice to which most of us never admit, not even to ourselves."--Karen Russell"You Should Pity Us Instead is an unbroken spell from first story to last, despite the enormous range of subjects and landscapes, sufferings and joys it explores."--Laura Kasischke"Amy Gustine's stories cross impossible borders both physical and moral: a mother looking for her kidnapped son sneaks into Gaza, an Ellis Island inspector mourning his lost love plays God at the boundary between old world and new. Brave, essential, thrilling, each story in You Should Pity Us Instead takes us to those places we've never dared visit before."--Ben StroudYou Should Pity Us Instead explores some of our toughest dilemmas: the cost of Middle East strife at its most intimate level, the likelihood of God considered in day-to-day terms, the moral stakes of family obligations, and the inescapable fact of mortality. Amy Gustine exhibits an extraordinary generosity toward her characters, instilling them with a thriving, vivid presence.Amy Gustine's short fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, North American Review, Black Warrior Review, the Massachusetts Review, and many other places. She lives in Ohio"--
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Contents
- All the sons of Cain -- Unattended -- Goldene medene -- You should pity us instead -- An uncontaminated soul -- Prisoners do -- Coyote -- AKA Juan -- The River Warta -- When we're innocent -- Half-life.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-1381
- ISBN
- 9781941411193
- 1941411193
- LCCN
- 2015017017
- OCLC
- 911617744
- Author
- Gustine, Amy, 1970- author.
- Title
- You should pity us instead : stories / Amy Gustine.
- Publisher
- Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2016]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Gustine, Amy, 1970- All the sons of Cain.Gustine, Amy, 1970- Unattended.Gustine, Amy, 1970- Goldene medene.Gustine, Amy, 1970- Uncontaminated soul.Gustine, Amy, 1970- Prisoners do.Gustine, Amy, 1970- Coyote.Gustine, Amy, 1970- AKA Juan.Gustine, Amy, 1970- River Warta.Gustine, Amy, 1970- Half-life.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-1381