Short Stories Are Not Real Life: Stories

by David R. Slavitt

Book Overview

In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Elegant, spare, sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac--this collection reflects a writer in admirable control of his craft.

The title story (complete with footnotes la The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction) braids together the tidy conventions of fiction and the brutal reality of New York as a writing teacher ponders s student's sexually explicit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124729
• ISBN13: 9780807124727
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"