BONE BY BONE. [Paperback]

Gary. Krist (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: HARCOURT, BRACE. NY 1994 (1994)
• ASIN: B0012FHHYE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Before turning to narrative nonfiction with The White Cascade and his current project, City of Scoundrels (coming in April 2012), Gary Krist wrote three novels--Bad Chemistry, Chaos Theory, and Extravagance--and two short-story collections--The Garden State and Bone by Bone. He has been a regular book reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, Salon, and The Washington Post Book World. His satirical op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and Newsday, and his stories, articles, and travel pieces have been featured in National Geographic Traveler, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Playboy, The New Republic, Esquire, and on National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts." His stories have also been anthologized in such collections as Men Seeking Women, Writers' Harvest 2, and Best American Mystery Stories. He has been the recipient of The Stephen Crane Award, The Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Travel Journalism, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and daughter.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent, Readable, Often Profound, April 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Bone By Bone (Hardcover)

I read this after reading Krist's great thriller BAD CHEMISTRY. This collection is entirely different in some ways, but just as compelling. Krist gets into the heads of so many different kinds of people, and he always convinces. The last story especially stays with you long after you close the book. Best of all, things really happen in this collection, not like some literary collections, where there's so much navel-gazing that you want to scream. This collection is full of everyday drama occurring in the lives of everyday people--but somehow, through the lens of Krist's art--it all becomes extraordinary.