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“These evocative stories are dark and graceful, as deeply nuanced as novels. D’Ambrosio evokes lives of regret and resignation, and there’s never a false note, only the quiet desperation of souls seeking the elusive promise of redemption.” —The Miami Herald“Charles D’Ambrosio works a rich, deep, dangerous seam in the brokenhearted rock of American Fiction. His characters live lives that burn as dark and radiant as the prose style that conjures them, like the blackness at the center of the candle’s flame. No one today writes better short stories than these.” —Michael Chabon“D’Ambrosio, who should be ranked up near Carver and Jones on the top tier of contemporary practitioners of the short story, manages to channel Carver’s deftly elliptical manner and Jones’ wounded machismo. Yet in this collection he marks out his own territory, using only the most steadfast and difficult of a writer’s tools–craft and character–and his own marvelously skewed lens.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“The stories that make up The Dead Fish Museum are lithe masterpieces of emotional chiaroscuro.” —Elle“Impossible to put down. D’Ambrosio’s prose is fluid, even insinuating. Sentence leads on to sentence with a momentum that mimics the twisted logic of madness, the small steps and sudden turns that lead people from well-lit streets and into dark alleys.” —The Seattle Times“Every other sentence is a masterpiece. Not a museum—type masterpiece, to be admired but not touched, to be treasured but not explored, but one you could find on a nature trail, created by the author but guided by the hand of God. . . . A reader will gain something rare after reading this book: a sense of wonder at the resilience of a human soul.” —Bloomsbury Review
“The stories that make up The Dead Fish Museum are lithe masterpieces of emotional chiaroscuro.” —Elle“Impossible to put down. D’Ambrosio’s prose is fluid, even insinuating. Sentence leads on to sentence with a momentum that mimics the twisted logic of madness, the small steps and sudden turns that lead people from well-lit streets and into dark alleys.” —The Seattle Times“Every other sentence is a masterpiece. Not a museum—type masterpiece, to be admired but not touched, to be treasured but not explored, but one you could find on a nature trail, created by the author but guided by the hand of God. . . . A reader will gain something rare after reading this book: a sense of wonder at the resilience of a human soul.” —Bloomsbury Review
About the Author
Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of The Point and Orphans, a collection of essays. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. Among other honors, he is a recent recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award.
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Amazing collection,
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From beginning to end this collection of stories was funny, moving, and soulful, especially the stories: "The Screenwriter" and "The Bone Game", which were so strange yet loving and compassionate.
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Nothing Floating on the Top,
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D'Ambrosio's "Dead Fish Museum" is realist fiction collection that manages to be well crafted without being predictable, and stylized without being pseudo-poetic. Each story inhabits a fully realized world, both physically and emotionally, whether a typewriter repair shop in downtown ("Drummond and Son"), a crowded hunting cabin in the wilderness ("Up North"), or a mental hospital ("The Screenwriter"). The sentences are beautiful, and the rhythms and diction seemed appropriate to the character and setting. Though most of the action in these stories happens on the interior of the characters - or if it is exterior, is often downplayed or held secret - the crafting is strong enough to give the interior lives and subtexts adequate "oomph" to carry the stories through without a need for anything too gratuitous. I highly recommend this for lovers of contemporary "New Yorker"-esque short stories.
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A voice of his own, deeply melancholy but capable of setting up characters in intriguing situations with deeply felt human conflicts. Not as funny as Boyle, but who is?
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