Stay awake : stories
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, [2012].
Status
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Chaon, D.
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Chaon, D.
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, [2012].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
UPC
9780345530370
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"Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection--and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations. A father's life is upended by his son's night terrors--and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of "empty-nest syndrome"; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes--on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house. Dan Chaon's stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm--in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chaon, D. (2012). Stay awake: stories (First edition.). Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chaon, Dan. 2012. Stay Awake: Stories. Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chaon, Dan. Stay Awake: Stories Ballantine Books, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chaon, Dan. Stay Awake: Stories First edition., Ballantine Books, 2012.
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