After Bathing at Baxters: Stories
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Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prizeâlong-listed author D. J. Taylor
In the vein of Raymond Carverâs short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people desperate to escape their dead-end lives as they grapple with failure, disappointment, and missed chances. In âDreams of Leaving,â Harlem pornographer Fuchs has seen it all; though he has never traveled farther west than Cincinnati, his bedroom is a shrine to all the places he secretly fantasizes about. âThe Summer Peopleâ are the tourists who come to Cromer and invade Julianâs life every July and August, but this sweltering season of change will mark a turning point in the Norfolk teenâs life. In âFlights,â a mid-level insurance salesman named Dorfman haunts airports and collects model airplane kitsâonly to find his humdrum life changed forever by a beautiful Filipino flight attendant. âThe Survivorâ is about an unsung writer who lives through many millennia, from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the presentâas well as an unimaginable world without books. And in the title story, twenty-four-year-old deli worker Susy fantasizes about an end-of-summer vacation away from Tara City, Wyomingââa place you moved out of.â
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Football, a Montana rock band, and a running man populate other tales in this superlative anthology that showcases Taylorâs mastery of his craft.
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In the vein of Raymond Carverâs short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people desperate to escape their dead-end lives as they grapple with failure, disappointment, and missed chances. In âDreams of Leaving,â Harlem pornographer Fuchs has seen it all; though he has never traveled farther west than Cincinnati, his bedroom is a shrine to all the places he secretly fantasizes about. âThe Summer Peopleâ are the tourists who come to Cromer and invade Julianâs life every July and August, but this sweltering season of change will mark a turning point in the Norfolk teenâs life. In âFlights,â a mid-level insurance salesman named Dorfman haunts airports and collects model airplane kitsâonly to find his humdrum life changed forever by a beautiful Filipino flight attendant. âThe Survivorâ is about an unsung writer who lives through many millennia, from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the presentâas well as an unimaginable world without books. And in the title story, twenty-four-year-old deli worker Susy fantasizes about an end-of-summer vacation away from Tara City, Wyomingââa place you moved out of.â
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Football, a Montana rock band, and a running man populate other tales in this superlative anthology that showcases Taylorâs mastery of his craft.
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Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prizeâlong-listed author D. J. Taylor
In the vein of Raymond Carverâs short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people desperate to escape their dead-end lives as they grapp...
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D. J. Taylor is the author of eleven novels, including Kept (2006), which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, Derby Day (2011), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and The Windsor Faction (2013), a joint winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His nonfiction includes a biography of Thackeray and Orwell: The Life (2003), which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His journalism appears in a variety of newspapers and periodicals, including the Independent, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal. Taylor lives in Norwich, England, with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore, and their three sons.
D. J. Taylor is the author of eleven novels, including Kept (2006), which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, Derby Day (2011), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and The Windsor Faction (2013), a joint winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His nonfiction includes a biography of Th...
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