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Good trouble : stories / Joseph O'Neill.

O'Neill, Joseph, 1964- (author.).

Summary:

"A masterly collection of eleven stories about the way we live now from the best-selling author of Netherland. From bourgeois facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, Joseph O'Neill closely observes the mores of his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the mysterious pettiness, underlying violence, and, sometimes, surprising beauty of ordinary life in the early twenty-first century. A lonely wedding guest talks to a goose; two poets struggle over whether to participate in a "pardon Edward Snowden" verse petition; a cowardly husband lets his wife face a possible intruder in their home; a potential co-op renter in New York City can't find anyone to give him a character reference. On the surface, these men and women may be in only mild trouble, but in these perfectly made, fiercely modern stories O'Neill reminds us of the real, secretly political consequences of our internal monologues. No writer is more incisive about the strange world we live in now; the laugh-out-loud vulnerability of his people is also fodder for tears"--Book jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781524747350
ISBN: 1524747351
Physical Description: 157 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Pardon Edward Snowden -- The trusted traveler -- The world of cheese -- The referees -- Promises, promises -- The death of Billy Joel -- Ponchos -- The poltroon husband -- Goose -- The mustache in 2010 -- The sinking of the Houston.