In the Country of the Young
Daniel Stern
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Publisher:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
DRM:
Watermark
Watermark
Publication Year:
2013
2013
ISBN-13:
9781480444140
Description:
<DIV><DIV><b>“An important and rewarding collection.” —<i>Houston Chronicle</i></b></div><DIV><BR>The short stories from<i> In the Country of the Young</i> feature characters struggling to find hope and connection—or just escape—through art, work, and love. The title story, a moving account of an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old nearly overwhelmed by his family’s aspirations for him, is a paean to the brief moment when the promise of youth and selfhood are untarnished by the disenchantments of life. In “Foxx Hunting,” a widower travels to LA to find a porn actress, though the movie he saw her in was shot decades earlier. “Lunch with Gottlieb” captures a young man of ambition hunting for the legendary advertising genius Gottlieb, lost in the jungles of business lunch.</div><DIV><BR>Garnering comparisons to the work of Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow, the stories of <i>In</i> <i>the Country of the Young</i> are written with the rare empathy and skill of a short fiction master.</div></div>