{"product_id":"fabrications-new-and-selected-stories-9781421438924","title":"Fabrications: New and Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pamela Painter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single 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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46453261664407,"sku":"9781421438924","price":2182.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781421438924.webp?v=1769143947","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fabrications-new-and-selected-stories-9781421438924","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}