Stay awake : stories / Dan Chaon.
Record details
- ISBN: 0345530373 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780345530370 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780345530370 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0345530373 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780345530387
- ISBN: 0345530381
- Physical Description: 254 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2012]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The bees -- Patrick Lane, flabbergasted -- Stay awake -- Long delayed, always expected -- I wake up -- To Psychic Underworld -- St. Dismas -- Thinking of you in your time of sorrow -- Slowly we open our eyes -- Shepherdess -- Take this, Brother, may it serve you well -- The farm, the gold, the lily-white hands. |
Summary, etc.: | "Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection--and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations. A father's life is upended by his son's night terrors--and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of "empty-nest syndrome"; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes--on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house. Dan Chaon's stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm--in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Short stories. Psychological fiction. |
Genre: | Short stories. Psychological fiction. Short stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Brookfield Library | F/CHAON (Text) | 34029125076835 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | FIC CHAON (Text) | 34000080404882 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | CHAON, DAN (Text) | 34037122988159 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC CHAON, D (Text) | 36123001430501 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC CHAON, D (Text) | 34005106913527 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |