The Start of Something: The Selected Stories of Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek
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A man faces the firing squad, his eyes covered with the slip of a lost love. A science lab burns to ashes in New York, reigniting smouldering memories. In a squalid squat a man spraypaints his girlfriend, candy can twirls up her legs, polka dots floating up from her navel, a blue ruff around her neck. Bringing together decades of work by the celebrated American writer Stuart Dybek, this eclectic collection sparks with life in its most unexpected forms. The people who walk through his stories live life in high-octane bursts, their lives never taking them where they expect, instead ricocheting between ever-more fraught situations. Operatically dramatic and intimately lyrical, grittily urban and impressionistically natural, Dybek's stories have an unsettling power to delight and disturb, leaving the world around the reader disconcertingly changed.
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