All Gone: 18 Short Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) [Paperback]

Stephen Dixon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction | Publication Date: December 1, 1998

A collection of 18 short stories by a "very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination" ("Times Literary Supplement").

Editorial Reviews

Review

Stephen Dixon's eighth volume of stories is an almanac of incidents in which life's semblance of fairness goes haywire.. The best of these pieces are so skillful that when every one of them reaches its moment of surreal implausibility, we assume that Mr. Dixon has placed the moment there on purpose, to test the irresistibility of the nightmare logic that's at work.

(New York Times Book Review )

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080186173X
• ISBN-13: 978-0801861734
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,811,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephen Dixon is the author of twenty-seven works of fiction including, most recently, Phone Rings and Old Friends (both published by Melville House). His novels Interstate and Frog were both finalists for the National Book Award. Frog was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has received the O. Henry Award, the Best American Short Stories award, the Pushcart Prize, The American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, and he has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.