Through the Safety Net - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter (Paperback)

Name: Through the Safety Net - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter (Paperback)
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 1005395634
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Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories.
About the Author: CHARLES BAXTER is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There's Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net.
224 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
Series Name: Vintage Contemporaries

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Book Synopsis

Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.

A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her--their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare artistry and feeling.

About the Author

CHARLES BAXTER is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There's Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net. His stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories. He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.02 Inches (H) x 5.19 Inches (W) x .64 Inches (D)

Weight: .52 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 224

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Short Stories (single author)

Series Title: Vintage Contemporaries

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Format: Paperback

Author: Charles Baxter

Language: English

Street Date: September 29, 1998

TCIN: 1005395634

UPC: 9780679776499

Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-2754

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 0.52 pounds

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