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The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg contains twenty-seven short stories by "a contemporary master" (New York Times). Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing "exquisitely distilled stories" which "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life" to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997) and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). "One of America''s finest writers."—San Francisco Chronicle "Concentrated bursts of perfection."—The Times (London)

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form. At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront the most disturbing truths about ourselves—from our intimate lives as lovers, parents, and children, to our equally troubling roles as citizens on a violent, terrifying planet. Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, her first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters—a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors shocked to read a book about their past; a privileged young man who unexpectedly falls into a love affair with a human rights worker caught up in an all-consuming quest that he doesn''t understand. In Eisenberg’s world, the forces of money, sex, and power cannot be escaped, and the force of history, whether confronted or denied, cannot be evaded. No one writes better about time, tragedy and grief, and the indifferent but beautiful universe around us.

Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband''s life-threatening illness, and her unlikely guide, a titled art scout in desperate revolt against his circumstances and aging; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, whose tragic life embitters him to the very idea of family, Eisenberg evokes "intense, abundant human lives" in which "everything that happens is out there waiting for you to come to it."

Deborah Eisenberg''s deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Eisenberg pries open daily life to explore the hidden mechanisms of human behavior. "Eisenberg is an influential presence in contemporary short fiction with her strong portrayals of characters dealing with the confusion of modern life." - Library Journal

Seven knowing, witty stories from the widely praised author of Transactions in a Foreign Currency.

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Autora mítica en el panorama del cuento norteamericano, admirada por escritores como Lorrie Moore, John Updike y George Saunders, cada uno de los cuentos de Deborah Eisenberg es un organismo extraño y deslumbrante, capaz, al mismo tiempo, de condensar en sus páginas la complejidad de una novela, cuestionar los límites propios del género y dar cuenta, con ternura y humor, de los imprevistos e imprevisibles desafíos de habitar este mundo. Terriblemente original, con una escritura producto de una destilación minuciosa y apenas cinco libros publicados en más de cuatro décadas, desde hace años el nombre de Deborah Eisenberg circula de boca en boca y hace que los lectores esperen con deleite la aparición de cada nuevo volumen de su obra. Los seis relatos de Taj Mahal, su libro más reciente, están llenos de encanto, ironía, observaciones filosas, y una lucidez que por momentos puede resultar perturbadora. En estas historias para leer y releer, Deborah Eisenberg escribe sobre familias, amistades, parejas, enamoramientos y duelos, y nos conmueve con personajes tan frágiles como valientes. De su mano nos acercamos a las verdades más íntimas, y a veces oscuras, de nuestra existencia.

Seven remarkable stories, four of which have appeared in The New Yorker, ranging in setting from an elegant East Side apartment to a YMCA locker roo m.

Fiction writer and playwright Deborah Eisenberg situates these paintings in the most unexpected and provocative ways. Commentaries on each of the plates become the springboard for an extensive conversation with the artist. A visual reference guide to each of the paintings further expands their discussion.

When Deborah Eisenberg''s first book of stories, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, was published, John Updike noted: "Whenever a new writer arrives, a new window of life is opened, and this has happened here." The scope and depth of Eisenberg''s idiosyncratic vision were even more apparent in her second collection, Under the 82nd Airborne, which The New York Times Book Review called "nothing short of extraordinary." As these two collections gathered here into one volume show, Eisenberg''s stories have an astonishing power and range. Her characters, whether they are walking in the streets of Manhattan or seemingly abandoned in foreign countries, continually make disquieting and sometimes life-threatening discoveries about themselves, discoveries that illuminate not only their own lives but also the wider net of relationships in which they are enmeshed. "The reprinting of these two collections as one is sure to win Eisenberg''s stories an even wider audience than they now enjoy." - Publishers Weekly

Comedy Characters: 3 male 4 female optional extras. Interior Set. Melanie has rented a country house where she is joined by her friend Rachel who came for a weekend but forgot to leave and by their school friend Steve. They spend nearly a year on the sofa meandering through a mental landscape of phobias friendships work sex slovenliness and epistemology. Other people happen by: Steve''s girlfriend a virtuous and annoying man Melanie picked up in a bar and a couple who a

Autora fundamental, tan genial como personalísima, y con una escritura obsesionada por dar cuenta tanto de las sensaciones corporales como de las penas, los anhelos, y los vaivenes mentales de sus personajes, Deborah Eisenberg dedica un año entero a la escritura de cada uno de sus relatos. Un cuento de Eisenberg nunca es solo un cuento, sino más bien una condensación de múltiples capas y dimensiones textuales; una entidad que, a fuerza de maestría, en su densidad reluce con un brillo único y con una tersura tan simple y tan compleja como la vida misma.

Nathaniel sous-loue avec des amis un loft à Manhattan. Il ne sait pas encore que la terrasse du marchand d''art, M. Matsumoto, offre une vue imprenable sur l''attaque imminente des Twin Towers. Invitée en Italie par son amie Giovanna, Kate part en week-end avec le séduisant Harry et se prend à rêver d''une idylle avec cet homme élégant et sûr de lui. Mais c''est compter sans la présence de la jolie Mlle Reitz, une lolita qui exerce son pouvoir de séduction pour tromper l''ennui... Deborah Eisenberg excelle dans ces portraits d''hommes et de femmes empêtrés dans les liens du mariage, du concubinage, et de la famille en général. Cousine littéraire d''Alice Munro et de Paula Fox, elle est à l''affût des tours que le Destin joue aux hommes, les punissant de leurs rêves de grandeur, de leurs aspirations à la gloire, à la fortune, ou tout simplement au bonheur. Observatrice implacable de la vie quotidienne, elle sait que la fin du monde est au coin de la rue.

Sept femmes saisies à un point crucial de leur existence : fragiles mais décidées, prêtes à affronter une vie honnête fut-ce au prix de la solitude et de l''angoisse face à l''inconnu. Récits de ruptures et de libertés, d''identités perdues et de tentatives de se refaire un destin. On retrouve dans ces nouvelles d''abord publiées dans le célèbre magazine The New Yorker une amertume douce, un humour et une tendresse qui ne vont pas sans évoquer de grands aînés, Scott Fitzgerald, par exemple, mais aussi et surtout la grande Dorothy Parker.

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