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"A collection of harrowing and personal stories by the O. Henry Prize-winning author David Means."

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Main Author:	Means, David, 1961- (Author)
Other Authors:	Means, David
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Fatherhood > Fiction. Short stories.
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Summary:	"A collection of harrowing and personal stories by the O. Henry Prize-winning author David Means."
Physical Description:	189 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9780374279813 0374279810
Author Notes:	David Means was born and raised in Michigan. His Assorted Fire Events earned the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction and The Secret Goldfish was short-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. The Spot was selected as a 2010 Notable Book by The New York Times and won the O. Henry Prize. His first novel, Hystopia , was published in 2016 to wide acclaim and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Means's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker , Harper's Magazine , Esquire , The Best American Short Stories , The O. Henry Prize Stories , and numerous other publications. He lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.