Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

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Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

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Summary

From one of America's finest storytellers, 'the most successful work of fiction so far to marry a literary imagination to a liberal critique of what has happened to America since September 11’ Daily Telegraph

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Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg is almost unmatched in her mastery of the short story form. In this, her seventh collection, she demonstrates her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, unflinchingly honest studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband's life-threatening illness; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg evokes painful and tender truths, both poetic and deeply political. 'The stories are, in their masterly crosshatching of light and dark, concentrated bursts of perfection’ The Times `Wonderful . . . written with a ruthless, compassionate eye and a subtle humour' Guardian `Further confirms her reputation as one of the most imaginative and exquisitely perceptive of today’s short story writers' Scotland on Sunday 'She makes you smile as much as she haunts with stark truths . . . In the US, many people consider Eisenberg to be up there with Alice Munro, the female monarch of the short-story form. It’s time the UK considered putting her up there too’ Financial Times

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Deborah Eisenberg is the author of several previous collections of stories. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, she lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Virginia.
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ISBN 13 9780330444606
ISBN 10 0330444603
Title Twilight of the Superheroes
Author Deborah Eisenberg
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2007-07-20
Number of pages 240
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