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.
- ISBN10 0801824451
- ISBN13 9780801824456
- Publish Date 1 October 1980
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 25 May 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English