Gordon Lish

Stories

Death and So Forth

An intimate and deeply personal portrait of a writer's life examines money, family, illness, and death

A Novel

My Romance

In his fifth collection of stories, Gordon Lish once again demonstrates his intelligence, passion, and gift for language. Through these pieces and the spaces within them, the reader learns what occupies the fictional Lish, and, in essence, everyone.

Krupp's Lulu

A middle-aged man recounts in meticulous detail a gruesome act of violence he committed as a child with the passive consent of his victim, an incident that may have only happened in his imagination.

Peru

David, an ordinary, successful husband and father, reveals his secret life as an insane killer, bent on stalking and murdering forty-seven innocent women, one for each year of his life

Dear Mr. Capote

Zimzum (Lish, Gordon)

Told through a series of letters written to various church volunteers, an account of a man reflecting on a particularly draining period of his life takes place after the death of his wife of several decades and presents an unflinching portrait of grief and its impact. IP.

Epigraph

This collection of Gordon Lish's short stories,demonstrates the stinging power and urgency of his,writing and the strength and vitality of the,American short story. Eloquent, sceptical, and,humorous, Lish creates a variety of characters who,ponder the intensity and extremes of life. Of,particular interest is the ""Salinger"" story, ""For,Rupert - with No Promises"" which when first,published in ""Esquire"" was believed to be the work,of Updike or Salinger.

What I Know So Far

A collection of stories by the author of "Dear Mr. Capote" and "Peru" captures the significance of the trivial details and everyday experiences that often add up to create the majority of an individual's memories.

Mourner at the Door

Extravaganza

Gordon Lish's latest work of exquisitely crafted fiction sees a narrator - variously "Gordon!," "I," "He" - approaching the precipice of old age. Against the backdrop of White Plains hospital, Lish skewers together memories of long-past infidelities and betrayals, on-going friendships, the death of his wife and the relative comfort of household chairs, to forge a series of interlinked hypnotic and consistently hilarious narratives. White Plains is Lish at his sharpest, tackling his perennial subject - the memory of memory itself - with spellbinding mastery.

Pieces & Witherlings

White Plains

A Spokening

Cess

A collection of stories captures the significance of the trivial details and everyday experiences that often add up to create the majority of an individual's memory

Two aging Yiddish comedians trade jokes with one another.

A Joke Book

Forty stream-of-consciousness stories, unconnected and without structure, in which the author ruminates on anything that comes into his head. Experimental fiction.

Self-imitation of Myself

In Thirteen Sittings

Goings

"This definitive collection of Lish's short work includes a forword by the author and 106 stories, many of which Lish has revised exclusively for this edition"--Page 4 of cover.

Collected Fictions

In his forty-third attempt to write a novel, Gordon recalls his childhood and tries to create his own assassin.

Arcade, Or, How to Write

Gathers poems and short stories by contemporary American writers

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