Fools by Joan Silber
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber’s dazzling new story cycle tackles this question head-on.
"Silber deftly constructs whole, fully realized lives in just a few pages, and her use of first-person narratives gives these stories an intimate, confessional feeling, as if you’ve struck up a conversation with a particularly talkative stranger" -- Boston Globe
"Excellent…the pleasure of Ms. Silber’s overlapping tales is that in all of them characters do something to surprise you." -- Wall Street Journal
"So well made and pleasurable…[Silber] kicks ass." -- O, The Oprah Magazine
"Sly, graceful." -- Daily Beast
"Joan Silber’s stories charm us. And amuse us. And engage us. And move us. And even enlighten us. Fools embraces us all." -- Amy Bloom
"Joan Silber is one of the wisest, finest, most capacious observers of the human condition writing now. We should all be as heartbreakingly foolish and beautiful as the characters in this collection. Silber understands them inside out, and brings them close to us, as no one else can." -- Stacey D’Erasmo
"A unique and fascinating collection…The collective vision this provokes is what makes the book intellectually satisfying, the separate lives it convincingly displays are what move the heart." -- Antonya Nelson
"Dazzling…written in elegant prose and with clairvoyant wisdom." -- Lily Tuck
"A wonderfully winning exploration of impetuousness in all of its appalling and appealing forms." -- Jim Shepard
"Astonishing for its range, for its sweeping sense of time and place, and most especially for its deep insight into the way small choices can circle out to shape lives, and even human history. This is a beautiful book and an important literary achievement." -- Dan Chaon
"Great fiction…It is impossible not to be enthralled." -- Christine Schutt
"I loved Fools. The stories always surprised me, with the narratives unfolding as if in real time, and then turning unexpected in so many ways, twisting into stories that felt like remembered history, but with such added emotion that I thought about the characters for several days afterward as if they were here in my house." -- Susan Straight
"Excellent…the pleasure of Ms. Silber’s overlapping tales is that in all of them characters do something to surprise you." -- Wall Street Journal
"So well made and pleasurable…[Silber] kicks ass." -- O, The Oprah Magazine
"Sly, graceful." -- Daily Beast
"Joan Silber’s stories charm us. And amuse us. And engage us. And move us. And even enlighten us. Fools embraces us all." -- Amy Bloom
"Joan Silber is one of the wisest, finest, most capacious observers of the human condition writing now. We should all be as heartbreakingly foolish and beautiful as the characters in this collection. Silber understands them inside out, and brings them close to us, as no one else can." -- Stacey D’Erasmo
"A unique and fascinating collection…The collective vision this provokes is what makes the book intellectually satisfying, the separate lives it convincingly displays are what move the heart." -- Antonya Nelson
"Dazzling…written in elegant prose and with clairvoyant wisdom." -- Lily Tuck
"A wonderfully winning exploration of impetuousness in all of its appalling and appealing forms." -- Jim Shepard
"Astonishing for its range, for its sweeping sense of time and place, and most especially for its deep insight into the way small choices can circle out to shape lives, and even human history. This is a beautiful book and an important literary achievement." -- Dan Chaon
"Great fiction…It is impossible not to be enthralled." -- Christine Schutt
"I loved Fools. The stories always surprised me, with the narratives unfolding as if in real time, and then turning unexpected in so many ways, twisting into stories that felt like remembered history, but with such added emotion that I thought about the characters for several days afterward as if they were here in my house." -- Susan Straight
Joan Silber is the author of eight works of fiction. Among many awards and honors, she has won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393348897 |
| ISBN 10 | 039334889X |
| Title | Fools |
| Author | Joan Silber |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2014-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for ALA Carnegie Medal 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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