{"product_id":"spot-paperback","title":"Spot - 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\u003eDavid Means\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the currents of her own tragic story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is in the ear of a Manhattan madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbor . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a suburban hospital room in which a young father confronts his son's potentially devastating diagnosis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot is a dusty encampment in Nebraska where a gang of inept radicals plot a revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Spot draws thirteen new stories together into a masterful collection that shows David Means at his finest: at once comically detached and wrenchingly affecting, expansive and concise, wildly inventive and firmly rooted in tradition. Means's work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O'Connor (\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e), Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson (\u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\/NPR), Denis Johnson (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), Poe, Chekhov, and Carver (\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e), but the spot he has staked out in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID MEANS \u003c\/b\u003ewas born and raised in Michigan. His second collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eAssorted Fire Events\u003c\/i\u003e, earned the \u003ci\u003eLos Angles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle nomination. His third book, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Goldfish\u003c\/i\u003e, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. His fourth book, \u003ci\u003eThe Spot\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected as a 2010 Notable Book by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and won an O. Henry Prize. His books have been translated into eight languages, and his fiction has appeared \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Mystery Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other publications. He lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.3 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47253206499577,"sku":"9780865478510","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/l64g1Uun8k9780865478510.webp?v=1768699579","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/spot-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}