Name: The Emerald Light in the Air
ISBN: 9780374280932

Donald Antrim

A latest collection by the author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World features protagonists who search for community and confront the dysfunctional aspects of their characters throughout everyday occurrences.

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The Emerald Light in the Air

Will Vunderink

The over-medicated, immature Manhattanites who populate these stories blend into one another a bit too much, but the collection was worth it for "Another Manhattan" alone, which is easily one of the best short stories I've ever read.

A devastatingly funny, achingly tender short story collection. An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments.

Gary Homewood

Correlated stories of first world disaffection, medicated psychology, counter-productive nostalgia for failed relationships and attempted families. Filmically detailed, contemporary and darkly comic, though the narrow, privileged world view can be a bit tiresome.

The Emerald Light in the Air Stories

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