{"product_id":"the-new-york-stories-of-elizabeth-hardwick-paperback","title":"The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Hardwick was one of America's great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals--such as \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e--in which it originally appeared. This first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. A young woman returns from New York to her childhood Kentucky home and discovers the world of difference within her. A girl's boyfriend is not quite good enough, his \"silvery eyes, light and cool, revealing nothing except pure possibility, like a coin in hand.\" A magazine editor's life falls strangely to pieces after she loses both her husband and her job. Individual lives and the life of New York, the setting or backdrop for most of these stories, are strikingly and memorably depicted in Hardwick's beautiful and razor-sharp prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/b\u003e (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of\u003cbr\u003eKentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a cofounder and advisory editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes \u003ci\u003eSleepless Night\u003c\/i\u003es, a novel, and \u003ci\u003eSeduction and Betrayal, \u003c\/i\u003e a study of women in literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a novel, \u003ci\u003eHigh Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, \u003ci\u003eOut There: Mavericks of Black Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 7.98 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771232878880,"sku":"9781590172872","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/575b5091954cea3fccbd07827dfbe756.webp?v=1780383595","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-new-york-stories-of-elizabeth-hardwick-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}