The Bed Moved by Rebecca Schiff
A New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a 'Clothing Optional Resort' in California. A nerdy high schooler has her first sexual experience at geology camp. On the night of her father's funeral, a college student watches an old video of her Bat Mitzvah, hypnotized by the image of the girl she used to be . . . Frank and irreverent, these stories offer a singular view of growing up (or not) and finding love (or not) in today's uncertain landscape.
The thing that makes this book so special is the punch-packing depth of these meticulously crafted piecesRebecca Schiff is a human spotlight and I will look wherever she points from now on * Sloane Crosley, author of The Clasp *
Rebecca Schiff is one of the best young writers out there. Her stories are sharp, subtle, funny and incredibly moving * Sam Lipsyte *
I'd like to watch the faces of people reading it as they shift between awe and admiration and shock. This writer is freaking good * Ben Marcus *
At once acerbic and heartbreaking, Schiff's fictional plots draw on the modern female experience * refinery29 *
Schiff has an almost Nabokovian boldness and crispness of phrase * New York Times *
A great collection of moments * Big Issue *
A brave, intimate scrapbook of loss . . . powerful and poignant . . . a daring appraisal of adulthood, sexuality and death amid uncertainty and self-doubt * Financial Times *
A wildly assured debut short-story collection * O Magazine *
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe from red-faced embarrassment. Schiff gets at the relentlessness of being a young woman dealing with (or, hell, even being ambivalent about) love, dating, and grief, all while finding deep, sometimes dark, laughter in it * Marie Claire *
A fresh voice well worth listening to * Atlantic *
Schiff's buzzy, concisely wise style is a perfect medium for the trappings of womanhood in modernity . . . Schiff's prose is loaded with cadences, pitfalls and punchlines . . . electrifying * The Spectator *
Rebecca Schiff is one of the best young writers out there. Her stories are sharp, subtle, funny and incredibly moving * Sam Lipsyte *
I'd like to watch the faces of people reading it as they shift between awe and admiration and shock. This writer is freaking good * Ben Marcus *
At once acerbic and heartbreaking, Schiff's fictional plots draw on the modern female experience * refinery29 *
Schiff has an almost Nabokovian boldness and crispness of phrase * New York Times *
A great collection of moments * Big Issue *
A brave, intimate scrapbook of loss . . . powerful and poignant . . . a daring appraisal of adulthood, sexuality and death amid uncertainty and self-doubt * Financial Times *
A wildly assured debut short-story collection * O Magazine *
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe from red-faced embarrassment. Schiff gets at the relentlessness of being a young woman dealing with (or, hell, even being ambivalent about) love, dating, and grief, all while finding deep, sometimes dark, laughter in it * Marie Claire *
A fresh voice well worth listening to * Atlantic *
Schiff's buzzy, concisely wise style is a perfect medium for the trappings of womanhood in modernity . . . Schiff's prose is loaded with cadences, pitfalls and punchlines . . . electrifying * The Spectator *
Rebecca Schiff graduated from Columbia University's MFA programme. She lives in Brooklyn. This is her first book.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781473631847 |
| ISBN 10 | 147363184X |
| Title | The Bed Moved |
| Author | Rebecca Schiff |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2016-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |