{"product_id":"american-innovations-9781250069238","title":"American Innovations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BRILLIANT NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE \"CONSPICUOUSLY TALENTED\" (\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e) RIVKA GALCHEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Innovations\u003c\/i\u003e, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family.\u003cbr\u003e The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, reimagined from the perspective of female characters. Just as Wallace Stevens's \"Anecdote of the Jar\" responds to John Keats's \"Ode on a Grecian Urn,\" Galchen's \"The Lost Order\" covertly recapitulates James Thurber's \"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,\" while \"The Region of Unlikeness\" is a smoky and playful mirror to Jorge Luis Borges's \"The Aleph.\" The title story, \"American Innovations,\" revisits Nikolai Gogol's \"The Nose.\"\u003cbr\u003e By turns realistic, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, these marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer like none other today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250069238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/16\/2015 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rivka Galchen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648556527772,"sku":"9781250069238","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5829fa63-9e4c-4622-8e8e-99843b37d0cf.jpg?v=1603870370","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/american-innovations-9781250069238","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}