Through the Safety Net: Stories

Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.

A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her--their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare artistry and feeling.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/29/1998
ISBN: 9780679776499
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.19w x 0.64d

Review Citations: New York Times 10/18/1998 pg. 36