{"product_id":"i-was-trying-to-describe-what-it-feels-like-new-and-selected-stories-paperback","title":"I Was Trying to Describe What it Feels Like: New and Selected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNoy Holland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These new and selected stories testify to the fact that there are still fine short story writers out there, doing the hard job of serious literary production in our age of tweets and memes...Holland's language is challenging, elliptical, bristling with sensations and resounding with the interior lives of complicated, recognizable people.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the twenty years since her first short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectacle of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e, Noy Holland has become a singular presence in American writing. Her second and third collections, \u003ci\u003eWhat Begins With Bird\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSwim for the Little One First\u003c\/i\u003e, secured her reputation as a writer who excels and excites, her prose described as unsettling and acutely wrought, rhythmic and lyrically condensed. Following the recent publication of \u003ci\u003eBird\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel, \u003ci\u003eI Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like\u003c\/i\u003e is a gathering of stories, the majority of which have never before been published in book form. Set on two continents and ranging in length from a single page to a novella, these stories beguile and disrupt; they remind us of the reach of our compassion and of the dazzling possibilities of language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I Was Trying to Describe What it Feels Like,\" from which the collection takes its title, is part love song, part fever dream--a voice demanding the ecstatic. Holland's stories do not indulge in easy emotions, and they keep to the blessedly blurred frontier between poetry and prose.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoy Holland\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBird: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e as well as three story collections, \u003ci\u003eSwim for the Little One First\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat Begins with Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Spectacle of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she teaches writing in the graduate program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752120942880,"sku":"9781619025936","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dfb6f3862fe0382ba0a0ca84899f9c04.webp?v=1779988163","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/i-was-trying-to-describe-what-it-feels-like-new-and-selected-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}