Stephen Dixon

• Nov-1983
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• Jan-1988
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• Jun-1988
• / Action Adventure
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Shaney Fleet is the owner of a working-class bar, and his problem is garbage. When a private hauler tries to coerce Shaney into purchasing collection services, he resists. Soon no hauler will remove his black-listed trash, and garbage that is not eve...

• Dec-1993
• / General Fiction
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Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy".--"New York Times Book Review"....

• Mar-1994
• / General Fiction
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The author of the critically acclaimed Frog presents a collection of what he considers to be his finest short fiction that incisively captures the absurdities of urban America, the nature of modern relationships, and the complexities of human...

• May-1995
• / Suspense
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In the author's first novel since Frog, a nominee for the National Book Award, a father mentally replays, in eight variations, the shooting of his daughters on an interstate highway. 15,000 first printing. $12,500 ad/promo....

• Feb-1997
• / Suspense
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Frog is a complex and paradoxical character: petulant, compulsive, overbearing, hostile, and self-righteous, but also imaginative, loving, kind, and strong. No matter how exasperating he gets, it's still hard not to care about him. His story is a non...

• Feb-1997
• / General Fiction
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Draws a portrait of an American man through a collection of shorter stories documenting his romantic and sexual encounters over the course of forty years, showing the pain and wonder of love that are such a part of life in the modern world...

• Jan-1999
• / General Fiction
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A collection of 18 short stories by a "very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination...

• Apr-1999
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• May-1999
• / General Fiction
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In 30 Dixon presents us with life according to Gould, his brilliant fictional narrator who shares with us his thoroughly examined life from start to several finishes, encompassing his real past, imagined future, mundane present, and a full range of r...

• Feb-2000
• / Literary
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This is Stephen Dixon's first written novel and his most seminal work. Readers of Dixon's work will not be disappointed. The character, metaphor and Dixon's honey pot of language are all here, with the story of a man, writhing in his own torment, pul...

• Dec-2001
• / General Fiction
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One of Dixon's earlier short story collections....

• Jul-2002
• / Literary
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The long-awaited novel by master Stephen Dixon, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, I. is a searingly powerful and seemingly autobiographical novel  in the form of linked stories  that explores the limitations of memory and the frustra...

• Sep-2002
• / General Fiction
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Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel --a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has com...

• Nov-2004
• / General Fiction
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A Village Voice Best Book of 2004, this stunning and often hilarious tour-de-force by the master of the American avant-garde traces the friendship of two writers over the course of a lifetime.

• Apr-2005
• / General Fiction
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In the ten stories that comprise Friends, Dixon writes with his unusual flair, wit, and gentle irony. Through Will and Magna, characters he first introduced in his first collection Time To Go, Dixon offers many insights into the complexities and rich...

• Sep-2005
• / Literary
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A shocking phone call in the first sentence sparks a soaring tour-de-force saga by two-time National Book Award nominee Stephen Dixon.

It is the tale of two brothers, years apart in age, who have become close late in life. But the freakish dea...

• Jul-2006
• / Literary
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Three years ago, McSweeney’s published Stephen Dixon’s acclaimed I. Now, the two-time National Book Award nominee revisits that book’s intimate territory, tightening his unflinching focus even as he widens the scope. Dixon is still a master ...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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"One of the great secret masters."-Jonathan Lethem

"A hip Saul Bellow."-Publishers Weekly

The twenty-sixth book of fiction by the award-winning Baltimore writer sets up a situation that the protagonist-Meyer, a prolific fiction write...

• Oct-2010
• / General Fiction
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An uncompromising collection of modern fiction. Stephen Dixon is one of the literary world’s best-kept secrets. For the last thirty years he has been quietly producing work for both independent literary publishers (McSweeney’s and Melville House ...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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A lost novel originally written at the end of the 1960's, and too free with its metafictional soul for the publishers of even that era. This is Stephen Dixon enmeshed in domestic concerns as always, but with a young, ferocious energy that will amaze ...

• May-2013
• / Literary
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Written before stalking became a social issue, Stephen Dixon novel about a young man's obsessive love for a beautiful woman takes place for 24 hours in NYC....

• Jul-2013
• / Literary
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20 well-crafted tales. Highly charged, insistent, often expressing themselves in gritty urban vernacular, his narrators emerge as ironic, sensitive, self-deprecating losers and loners....

• Sep-2013
• / Literary
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This prose fiction novel, written by literary prizewinner Stephen Dixon, replicates the consciousness of a jilted man. Stephen Dixon, one of America’s great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years -- His Wife Leaves Him, a...

• Apr-2016
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. The most famous Beatrice in history is Dante's Beatrice, who appears in the Divine Comedy as the guide that must accompany Dante, after Virgil can travel with him no higher, through the upper reaches of Purgatory and into Heaven. Stephen Dix...

• May-2016
• / Fantasy
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Rudy, a goodhearted fellow in New York, has been trying to phone Kevin Wafer, a kid he knows in Palo Alto, California. Only trouble is, one thing or another keeps getting in the way. For starters, Rudy doesnââ,¬â"¢t have a phone in his apartment, an...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy." -- The New York TimesThe inter...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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Stephen Dixon has long been considered one of America's preeminent literary innovators. Dear Abigail, the companion to Dixon's earlier collection Late Stories, continues the story of Philip Seidel as he recounts every detail of the early days of h...

• Apr-2018
• / Fantasy
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If you ever heard the tale of the Gingerbread Man,

What you might not know was his follow-up plan.

This is the tale of what happened later,

The cheeky, old fox turned Gingerbread baker.

The Gingerbread Man 2 is a fun, rhymi...

• Jan-2019
• / Literary
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A new collection of interconnected short stories in which a writer grapples with his wife’s death.

• Feb-2019
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Stephen Dixon has long been considered one of America's preeminent literary innovators. From the National Book Award nominated Frog and Interstate, to His Wife Leaves Him and Letters to Kevin, Dixon's "unpredictable, often haunting fiction h...

• Mar-2019
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Together for the first time, the interlinked tales of Stephen Dixon's DEAR ABIGAIL AND LATE STORIES in a beautifully designed set.Reveals Stephen Dixon as one of the two great American storytellers today. The other is George Saunders.--El Pa...

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Featuring new work by Kelly Cherry, Stephen Dixon, Bob Hicok, Gabrielle Hovendon, Joanna Klink, Erika Krouse, David Naimon, Joyce Carol Oates, Matthew Vollmer, Abdourahman Waberi, Ellen Doré Watson, and many more writers, both award-winning and emerg...