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The twilight of the superheroes

Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony 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, and her unlikely guide, a titled art scout in desperate revolt against his circumstances and aging; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, whose tragic life embitters him to the very idea of family, Eisenberg evokes "intense, abundant human lives" in which "everything that happens is out there waiting for you to come to it."

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  • "Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony 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, and her unlikely guide, a titled art scout in desperate revolt against his circumstances and aging; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, whose tragic life embitters him to the very idea of family, Eisenberg evokes "intense, abundant human lives" in which "everything that happens is out there waiting for you to come to it.""@en
  • "A collection of short works includes the tales of a group of friends whose efforts to acquire a luxurious Manhattan sublet are halted by the September 11 attacks, a teacher's Roman holiday in the wake of her husband's life-threatening illness, and a brother's painful love for his schizophrenic sister."
  • "In Eisenberg's newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious Manhattan sublet turns to disaster as their balcony becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11, to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister."
  • "Nathaniel, dessinateur de comics, s'installe dans un loft à Manhattan, sans savoir qu'il a une vue directe sur la prochaine attaque des Twin Towers. Kate part en week-end en Italie en compagnie d'Harry, un homme séduisant. La présence d'une jeune fille frivole entrave ses projets. Série de nouvelles brossant le portrait d'hommes et de femmes aux prises avec les liens du mariage."

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  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Rache der Dinosaurier Erzählungen"
  • "Le crépuscule des superhéros"
  • "The twilight of the superheroes"@en
  • "The twilight of the superheroes"
  • "El Ocaso de los superhéroes"
  • "Twilight of the superheroes"
  • "Twilight of the superheroes"@en
  • "El ocaso de los superhéroes"@es
  • "Twilight of the superheroes: stories"
  • "Twilight of the superheroes : [stories]"
  • "Rache der Dinosaurier : Erzählungen"
  • "Le crépuscule des superhéros : nouvelles"

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