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Collected Stories
by Sigrid Nunez
The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend.
Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels celebrated by fans and critics alike. Revered for their warm, unadorned style, Nunez's books are "as sophisticated as they are straightforward" (New York Times Magazine), melding a "wry, withering wit" (NPR) with "explosions of pathos" (Washington Post) to conjure "world[s] of insight into death, grief, art, and love" (Wall Street Journal).
But she has not, until now, produced a book of stories. In It Will Come Back to You, Nunez selects thirteen of her best stories from the decades-long sweep of her career, tracing the origins of her style and her remarkable artistic range. Moving from the momentous to the mundane, Nunez maintains her expert balance between gravity and levity while probing the philosophical questions that illuminate her work.
What New York Times critic Dwight Garner says of Nunez's novels is true of these stories as well: "They are ... wise, provocative, funny—good and strong company."
"[A] masterful career-spanning story collection.…Nunez's sharp wit remains a steady presence across the collection, roaming freely from one heavy subject to the next without ever slipping into sentimentality. It's a treasure trove." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Nunez delivers vivid portraits of people living quiet lives of desperation in these sterling short stories…A welcome addition to an already much esteemed body of work." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"All of the stories in the brilliant It Will Come Back to You employ Nunez's genius at turning the anodyne into something unexpected and startling...Nunez is masterfuL...The stories in It Will Come Back to You showcase a writer at her best." —BookPage (starred review)
"Dazzling…Nunez has a gift for surprise." —Booklist (starred review)
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Sigrid Nunez is the author of nine novels, including The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and The Vulnerables. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has received the National Book Award, the Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.
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