Stay Up with Me: Stories

by Tom Barbash

Book Overview

In the tradition of classic short stories by John Cheever and Tobias Wolff, those in Tom Barbash's evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect to one another and to the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in The Break interferes with her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in Balloon Night persists in hosting an annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062258133
• ISBN13: 9780062258137
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.1"