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Guess Again: Short Stories
Guess Again is a rich and eclectic collection of exquisitely crafted short stories. Written with unsparing honesty, these stories vividly illustrate love's complexities, the intricacies of family relationships, struggles with sexual identity, and the specter of AIDS.
Whether chronicling a dying man's acts of vandalism, a divorcée under house arrest, a Mormon couple's p
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Published
February 28th 2006
by Simon & Schuster
(first published 2000)
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Pretty straightforward stories, clean and bright prose, humanly and funny. Funniest part in the book - in the story "What to Name the Baby," there's a lapdog in a dog shelter that's fallen from grace. Just a few sentences, but I was rolling.
So far I've just read one story: A Man in the Making. Very smooth prose - I'm looking forward to the rest!
Oh, and my copy is autographed! Silly bookstore didn't even realise.
Oh, and my copy is autographed! Silly bookstore didn't even realise.
short stories. funny and touching at the same time, a unique mix that gives you a glimpse into the lives of these characters.
So funny...Cooper deserves to be as famous as Sedaris, Vowell, Burrows and other CNF stars.
Funny short stories without being goofy. Poignant.
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Bernard Cooper has won numerous awards and prizes, among them the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, an O. Henry Prize, and literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment of the Arts.
He has published two memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again.
His work has app...more
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He has published two memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again.
His work has app...more
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