Fresh complaint : stories
(2017)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/EUGENIDES,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
285 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374203061, 0374203067
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future