Book Description
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
From the Inside Flap
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
About the Author
Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He is the playwright of Bury the Dead, and the author of twelve novels, among them Rich Man, Poor Man, The Troubled Air, Nightwork, Acceptable Losses, Evening in Byzantium and The Young Lions, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.
Short Stories: Five Decades FROM THE PUBLISHER
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
SYNOPSIS
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
About the Author:Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He is the playwright of Bury the Dead and the author of Rich Man, Poor Man.
FROM THE CRITICS
William Goldman - ( New York Times Book Review)
[Shaw has] a primitive skill possessed by very few sophisticated men. . . . He asks only that we sit quietly in the cave, and build the fire high to frighten the wild animals outside. And just listen.
Bruce Jay Friedman - ( Esquire )
So artless and matter-of-fact is Irwin Shaw's technique that his stories seem to come off by accident. . . . At his best, which he's at an absurd number of times, Shaw is as skilled in construction as anyone who ever wrote in this form. . . . His stories move and inform and, God forbid, they entertain.
Edmund Fuller - ( Wall Street Journal )
Irwin Shaw, formidably prolific in novels and plays as well, is another whose greatest mastery may lie in the briefer form. Short Stories: Five Decades presents sixty-three of his tales, in tone and subject matter more variegated than Cheever's.
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