{"product_id":"girlfriends-ghosts-and-other-stories-9781681370163","title":"Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories","description":"\u003ci\u003eGirlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser's career, from pieces conceived amid his early triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser's life; others were jotted down on slips of paper and all but forgotten. They are strung together like consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony, wistful in their humor. Some dwell on childish or transient topics--carousels, the latest hairstyles, an ekphrasis of the illustrations in a picture book--others on the grand themes of nature, art, and love. But they remain conversational, almost lighter than air. Every emotion ventured takes on the weight of a sincerity that is imperiled as soon as it comes into contact with the outside world, which retains all of the novelty it had in childhood--and all of the danger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4517212\"\u003eRobert Walser\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681370163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681370166\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-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\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-FIC016000\"\u003eHumorous | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Walser\u003c\/b\u003e (1878-1956) was born into a German-speaking family in Biel, Switzerland. He led a wandering, precarious existence while writing his poems, novels, and vast numbers of the \"prose pieces\" that became his hallmark. NYRB Classics also publishes Walser's \u003ci\u003eJakob\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003evon Gunten \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBerlin Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTom Whalen\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic, and the co-editor of the Robert Walser issue of the \u003ci\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNicole Köngeter\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance translator and teacher of English and German in southwest Germany. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnnette Wiesner\u003c\/b\u003e's translations of Robert Walser have appeared in \u003ci\u003eConnecticut Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKestrel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWitness\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684196520173,"sku":"9781681370163","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_4a23b34a-9aaa-43df-8bc2-09941961f12e.jpg?v=1649752784","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/girlfriends-ghosts-and-other-stories-9781681370163","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}