false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167765922m/25785.jpg 25785 4 <div><div>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 too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg brilliantly "illustrates the lives of people rubbed raw by what the fates have sent them" (<i>Vanity Fair</i>).</div></div> 834807 book 2006 Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories total:372|5:85|4:128|3:92|2:50|1:17| 372 1330 615 73 2 2 false false Fri Dec 21 09:28:31 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 14 18:15:12 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 09:27:30 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Feb 09 12:48:54 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 04 14:58:40 -0700 2007
"The dining room was an aerie, a bower, hung with a playful lattice of garlands. Its white tile floors were adorned with painted baskets of fruit, and there were real ones scattered here and there on stands. But even as the waiters glided by with trays of glossy roasted vegetables a...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 16:07:13 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 16:21:43 -0700 2007
The first story is AWFUL. She lectures you on things you already know, repeats the same crap over and over, and while the disjointed sections didn't really bother me, they didn'...more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Sep 03 11:55:57 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 13:12:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 13:26:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 07:41:25 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 08:52:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 10:26:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 16:13:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 17:36:52 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 07:23:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 11:00:10 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 11:08:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:45:03 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:45:03 -0800 2009 Critics call Deborah Eisenberg a master of the short story, and Twilight, her seventh collection, reaffirms that reputation. With insight and intelligence, Eisenberg delves deep inside the daily lives of "outsiders" wandering through life. All stories didn't touch all critics equally; some...

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I tried to muddle through this collection, but it was difficult. I had no idea what the author was talking about half the time. I couldn't figure out if she just had ADHD or I had an attention deficit disorder of my own. Take, for example, the following passage from the title st...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 19:47:47 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 09:51:51 -0700 2008
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