- Hardcover: 145 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (October 1980)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801824451
- ISBN-13: 978-0801824456
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
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"These stories make a highly satisfying collection, not only for their evident craftsmanship but also because of the discriminating intelligence which underpins them and which makes the more subtle ramifications of the moral issues they deal with continue to work on one long after one has finished reading them."--'Times Literary Supplement'
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Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed through a fish-eye lens-slightly distorted and off-center, yet recognizable and often familiar. 14 Stories is part comedy, part tragedy, part social comment and part spoof. But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.
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a real crowd pleaser!, Oct 20 2005
By Robert Nagle "idiotprogrammer" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 14 Stories (Paperback)
I loved this book, even though I had to teach it to an undergraduate literature class..at JHU where Dixon also teaches/taught.Dixon writes a ton of stuff, and he belongs to the category of author who is coming out with more and more and more.
I haven't read more recent stuff (Steve, please give us a breather!), but I'm sure it's equally inspiring/zany/experimental/hit-or-miss/frantic/existential/eclectic.
But getting back to this volume. My students, who normally resented having to read books by profs at their university, just loved this little volume to death, and so did I. These stories were light-hearted, easy to read, clever and full of memorable lines and characters.
I really have no basis for declaring it to be the best of Dixon's s.s. collections, but it's the best out of the ones I'd encountered pre-1995.
BTW, the joke of the book is that the volume actually contains 13 (not 14) stories.
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