An Amateur's Guide to the Night: Stories

"Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial. . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence." --Vogue

An Amateur's Guide to the Night stands as a perfect example of Mary Robison's beloved narrative style: purposeful, clipped, and devastating in its restraint. Reflecting on the life of disaffected youth, these stories speculate on how they often manage to remain deferent towards the rest of society--and document how spectacularly they often fail.

"These thirteen stories are glimpses from a moving train into lit parlors, dinettes, bedrooms and dens. . . Think of Robison as the engineer, blowing the whistle, calling the stops and starts; invisible when you want to ask her why we're stalled here in the middle of nowhere, between stations, jobs, relationships and decisions." --Los Angeles Times

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 02/12/2019
ISBN: 9781640090897
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d