{"product_id":"fabrications-new-and-selected-stories-9781421438924","title":"Fabrications: New and Selected Stories","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13188653\"\u003ePamela Painter\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421438924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421438925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePamela Painter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four short story collections: \u003ci\u003eThe Long and Short of It\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Wouldn't You Like to Know\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ways to Spend the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGetting to Know the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Emerson College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44706786377965,"sku":"9781421438924","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_7076eeae-e5f9-4f5d-b81d-32b38b563765.jpg?v=1703958800","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/fabrications-new-and-selected-stories-9781421438924","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}