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The News from Spain (Vintage Contemporaries),Used
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A San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Best Book of the YearThe author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenthcentury Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what's in someone else's heartor in our own.Review :Best Books of 2012, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus'Wise and courageous and often brilliant breaks new ground in our perceptions of what a short story can be. Wonderfully imaginative and original. Boston GlobeAn ode to heartbreak and regretWickersham's gift is for capturing the habits of mind that lead even smart people to deceive themselvesher book makes you slow down and listen, and then watch for people to reveal themselves. New York Times Book ReviewElegantly structured, emotionally compellingShort stories dont get much better than this. KirkusDo not mistake Wickershams exquisitely polished prose for good manners. Although she writes with a vintage graceshe is brutal and funny tooDivine. San Francisco ChronicleVirtuosicWickersham [takes an] emotional cannonball into every single one of her characters. The doubts and tenderness they share are ones that only the finest fiction can create. Oprah.com Book of the WeekWickersham makes a triumphant return to fictionarticulates subtleties of human behavior that ordinarily elude language altogether. ElleMunro's and Wickersham's books are at the top of this year's pile. Chicago TribuneSo moving it will close your throat. Los Angeles TimesThe prose is beautiful, and you feel those characters like real people. Cheryl StrayedWickershamis a master of the written word and storytelling in all its forms. BookPageJoan Wickersham has done it again: astonished, enchanted, and moved meLike Alice Munro at her best. Julia GlassGorgeous, completely originalAs soon as I finished it, I began to read it again. Andre GregoryPoignant and insightfulWickersham is as skilled as Alice Munro in maneuvering her characters, and the reader, through timeHighly recommended. Library Journal
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