Here Comes Another Lesson by Stephen O'connor

Here Comes Another Lesson by Stephen O'connor

STEPHEN O'CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In Here Comes Another Lesson, O'Connor, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the vividly realistic, these brilliant stories offer tender portraits of idealists who cannot live according to their own ideals and of lovers baffled by the realities of love.

The story lines are unforgettable: A son is followed home from work by his dead father. God instructs a professor of atheism to disseminate updated Commandments. The Minotaur is awakened to his own humanity by the computer-game-playing "new girl" who has been brought to him for supper. A recently returned veteran longs for the utterly ordinary life he led as a husband and father before being sent to Iraq. An ornithologist, forewarned by a cormorant of the exact minute of his death, struggles to remain alert to beauty and joy.

As playful as it is lyrical, Here Comes Another Lesson celebrates human hopefulness and laments a sane and gentle world that cannot exist.

Stephen O'Connor is the author of Here Comes Another Lesson and Rescue, two collections of short stories, as well as Orphan Trains, a bestselling chronicle of a pioneering nineteenth-century child welfare operation, and Will My Name Be Shouted Out, a memoir. His work has featured in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Tales, among other magazines. He teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781439181997
ISBN 10	1439181993
Title	Here Comes Another Lesson
Author	Stephen Oconnor
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2010-08-03
Number of pages	305
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