The Paris Review Book of People with Problems [Paperback]

The Paris Reviewasks: who hasn't survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a break-up, or presided over a murder?

The next addictively clever Paris Review anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Throughout these pages you will find men plagued with guilt, women burdened by history, scientists bound by passion, mothers fogged with delusion, and lovers vexed with jealousy. In the theme that encompasses every life, no protagonist--or reader!--is exempt.

Among those to appear:
- Annie Proulx
- Andre Dubus
- Norman Rush
- Charles Baxter
- Wells Tower
- Julie Orringer
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ben Okri
- Rick Bass

The Paris Reviewhas published the work of Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Michael Chabon, and Jack Kerouac, among many others. They celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2003. It is said that all literature is ultimately about people in trouble--in short, people with problems. Hence this collection of 17 short stories about protagonists in fixes, exemplary tales that first appeared in theParis Review. -Booklist

Introduction by Stephin Merritt
A Borderline Caseby Joanna Scott
The Wamsutter Wolfby Annie Proulx
The Dream Vendor'sAugust by Ben Okri
The Brown Coastby Wells Tower
When She Is Old and I Am Famousby Julie Orringer
The Hermit's Storyby Rick Bass
Snowby James Lasdun
The Fifth Wallby Malinda McCollum
Instruments of Seductionby Norman Rush
Train Dreamsby Denis Johnson
Likely Lakeby Mary Robison
Westlandby Charles Baxter
Birthmarkby Miranda July
Auditby Richard Stern
The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trickby Elizabeth Gilbert
Widow Waterby Frederick Busch
Crystal Riverby Charlie Smith
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