Flight of Brothers

by Jonathan Baumbach

Overview

"No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and agonies of modern love.—Hilda Wolitzer

A staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Jonathan Baumbach's latest collection, Flight of Brothers, is a wonderful addition to his oeuvre. The stories within are filled with the longings and lingerings, sex and deprivation, humor and heartache as well as the New York nuances that have driven Baumbach's fiction from the start.

Jonathan Baumbach is the author of fourteen books of fiction, and has also published over ninety stories published in such places as Esquire and Boulevard.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938604263
Publisher:	Dzanc Books
Publication date:	07/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	150
File size:	369 KB

About the Author

Jonathan Baumbach: Jonathan Baumbach is the author of 14 books of fiction, including You, or The Invention of Memory, On The Way To My Father’s Funeral: New and Selected Stories, B, a novel, D-Tours, Separate Hours, Chez Charlotte and Emily, The Life and Times of Major Fiction, Reruns, Babble and A Man to Conjure With. He has also published over 90 stories published in such places as Esquire, Open City and Boulevard.

Jonathan, co-founder of The Fiction Collective in 1973 (it was reinvented as FC2 in 1988), the first fiction writers cooperative in America, has seen his work widely praised. His short stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, O.Henry Prize, and The Best of Tri-Quarterly. The New York Times Book Review referred to him in 2004 as “. . . an underappreciated writer. He employs a masterfully dispassionate, fiercely intelligent narrative voice whose seeming objectivity is always a faltering front for secret passion and despair."