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Elated By Details: Award-winning Short Stories

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I recently picked this book up and only put it down because I was late for work. Freedman's fresh, wise, and witty stories are simultaneously dark and delightful. I highly recommend Elated by Details and look forward to the author's future work.

This is a winning and witty debut collection of short stories, told with great humor and finesse. Collectively, these stories also present a portrait of New York as magical as any in recent literary memory. Bravo!

Elated By Details is the debut collection of award winning short stories by Adam Freedman. Combining sharp-witted satire, word play with a twist, and cast of dysfunctional characters speeding to their self-determined dark fates, Elated By Details reads in a deliciously extravagant and indulgent manner, luring one in for more despite the compelling grip of self-destructive human nature that so prevades the tongue-in-cheek tales. An engrossing cavalcade of human drama leaving the reader hungry for more.

Freedman's book is wonderful! Recommended by a friend, I started reading and was enchanted. His characters are sweet and awkward, shy and cocky and each one hits home as part of ourselves. It leaves you blushing and laughing out loud.

A true TESTIMONIAL to Mr. Freedman's talent as a writer and wry observer of all makes up today's world ... for all of you who have been waiting for the successor to the Algonquin writers, I have one thing to say: "DINNER is served!"

Very funny indeed. Elated by details kept me up late several nights snickering until my wife hit me with a pillow. Highly recommended.

These are great stories -- written with a sylish, funny, and often moving voice. A real treat to read. I can't wait for Freedman's next book.