{"product_id":"mendocino-fire-stories-paperback","title":"Mendocino Fire: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Tallent\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this collection of richly imagined stories, Elizabeth Tallent, the master of short fiction, delivers a diverse suite of stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and challenge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1980s, Elizabeth Tallent's work appeared in some of our most prestigious literary publications, including \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, Esquire, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHarper's.\u003c\/em\u003e Marked by its quiet power and emotional nuance, her fiction garnered widespread praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Tallent returns with a new collection of diverse, thematically linked, and deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for capturing relationships at their moment of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. \u003cem\u003eMendocino Fire\u003c\/em\u003e explore moments of fracture and fragmentation; it limns the wilderness of our inner psyche and brilliantly evokes the electric tension of deep emotion. In these pages, Tallent explores expectations met and thwarted, and our never-ending quest to avoid being alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this breathtaking collection, Elizabeth Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising, profound yet elemental, \u003cem\u003eMendocino Fire\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome visit with a wise and familiar friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe son of an aging fisherman becomes ensnared in a violent incident that forces him to confront his broken relationship with his father. A woman travels halfway across the country to look for her ex-husband, only to find her attention drawn in a surprising direction. A mill worker gives safe harbor to his son's pregnant girlfriend, until an ambiguous gesture upsets their uneasy equilibrium. These and other stories--of yearning, loss, and tentative new connections--come together in \u003cem\u003eMendocino Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, the first new collection in two decades from the widely admired Elizabeth Tallent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiverse in character and setting, rendered in an exhilarating, exacting prose, these stories confirm Tallent's enduring gift for capturing relationships in moments of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. The result is a book that reminds us how our lives are shaped by moments of fracture and fragmentation, by expectations met and thwarted, and by our never-ending quest to be genuinely seen.\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe son of an aging fisherman becomes ensnared in a violent incident that forces him to confront his broken relationship with his father. A woman travels halfway across the country to look for her ex-husband, only to find her attention drawn in a surprising direction. A mill worker gives safe harbor to his son's pregnant girlfriend, until an ambiguous gesture upsets their uneasy equilibrium. These and other stories--of yearning, loss, and tentative new connections--come together in \u003cem\u003eMendocino Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, the first new collection in two decades from the widely admired Elizabeth Tallent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiverse in character and setting, rendered in an exhilarating, exacting prose, these stories confirm Tallent's enduring gift for capturing relationships in moments of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. The result is a book that reminds us how our lives are shaped by moments of fracture and fragmentation, by expectations met and thwarted, and by our never-ending quest to be genuinely seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e PEN\/Faulkner Award (2016)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764253851936,"sku":"9780062410351","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f0c7736987296b0434f1e5740a09a317.webp?v=1780246892","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mendocino-fire-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}