{"product_id":"fabrications-new-and-selected-stories-paperback","title":"Fabrications: New and Selected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePamela Painter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA crowning collection from the award-winning short story writer Pamela Painter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePamela Painter's short stories have been praised by Margot Livesey for their \"wicked intelligence and ruthless humor.\" In\u003ci\u003e Fabrications\u003c\/i\u003e, which brings together 7 new and 24 selected stories, characters struggle to avoid the chaos in their lives, but--driven by addictions and appetites--often bring on disaster. Nobody is ordinary in Painter's stories. A burglar can't believe what he is asked to do by the woman whose jewelry he is stealing. Hitchhikers, hell-bent on murder, are thwarted by the miracle of story-telling. A wife can make rooms--and her husband--disappear, but saves the family dog. A young woman insists on the romance of being married in an Elvis Presley chapel, but for the wrong reasons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFabrications\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to Painter's lyric skill and psychological insight across her career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Previous Books by Pamela Painter \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These wonderful stories--about dogs and housewives, scholars and teenagers--vividly demonstrate Painter's wicked intelligence and ruthless humor and her utterly democratic interest in all our faults and foibles. . . . [A] quirky, sexy, irresistible collection.\"--Margot Livesey \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Pamela Painter's stories are warm, wise, funny, and ultimately true to the way we live now--trying to carry on in the face of things breaking down around us. Reading each story is a thrill--for the full-blown lives, astute details, exact metaphors, and pitch-perfect dialogue. She's like a carpenter--nailing it, again and again.\"--Bobbie Ann Mason\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is fiction of immense beauty, full of wisdom and informed by rare grace.\"--Steve Yarbrough\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePamela Painter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four short story collections: \u003ci\u003eThe Long and Short of It\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Wouldn't You Like to Know\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ways to Spend the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGetting to Know the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Emerson College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47249848926457,"sku":"9781421438924","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cG5PMmVZbU9Zd0QxNkhxZy9wd013QT09.webp?v=1768652960","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/fabrications-new-and-selected-stories-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}