Like You'd Understand, Anyway

by Jim Shepard

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Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.

Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first...Read more
  • ISBN10 0307277607
  • ISBN13 9780307277602
  • Publish Date 12 August 2008 (first published 26 October 2007)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 22 January 2025
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc