{"product_id":"an-amateurs-guide-to-the-night-isbn-9781640090897","title":"An Amateur's Guide to the Night","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial . . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence.\" —\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Amateur's Guide to the Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAn Amateur's Guide to the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRecipient of the 2018 Arts and Letters Award in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial . . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence.\" —\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The writing is cool and detached, controlling a breathtaking compassion. Her subjects and characters, mostly family members, are right out of life. \u003ci\u003eAn Amateur's Guide to the Night\u003c\/i\u003e continues Robison's practice of penetrating the heart. There is not one story in this collection that does not evoke an emotional response . . . It's an intimate, enriching experience.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"These thirteen stories are glimpses from a moving train into lit parlors, dinettes, bedrooms and dens. Though the rider sees only fragments, he can intuit essentials from posture, from motion, and see the space that characters inhabit. 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. Like Ann Beattie, Robison shunts the reader off the mainline to a limbo where everyone waits for something to begin or end. As narrative, the stories are inconclusive; as commentaries on the way Americans live now, they're absolute and final.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It's my hope that \u003ci\u003eAn Amateur's Guide to the Night\u003c\/i\u003e will win her the readership she deserves. No American short story writer speaks to our time more urgently or fondly than Robison.\" —David Leavitt, \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hip, deadpan, it's–cute–to–be–crazy stories from the author of \u003ci\u003eDays\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eOh!\u003c\/i\u003e—with vague grim undercurrents beneath the bright little pop–artish sketches of disaffected youngish people.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Robison\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Fiction, and the 2018 Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She is the author of four novels and four story collections. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303647695077,"sku":"NP9781640090897","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640090897.jpg?v=1767721481","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/an-amateurs-guide-to-the-night-isbn-9781640090897","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}