{"product_id":"stay-awake-9780345530387","title":"Stay Awake","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn these \"superbly disquieting\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) stories, lost, fragile, and searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland--from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Powerful and disturbing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eerily beautiful.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Chaon is] a literary force.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes an exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Emma Straub\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn twelve chilling stories, Dan Chaon introduces us to characters who have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection--and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA father's life is upended by his son's night terrors--and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of \"empty-nest syndrome\"; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes--on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eStay Awake\u003c\/i\u003e feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm--in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan Chaon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345530387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Story Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Story Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2012 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Chaon\u003c\/b\u003e is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eYou Remind Me of Me, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was named one of the best books of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Entertainment Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications; and \u003ci\u003eAwait Your Reply, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and appeared on more than a dozen \"Best of the Year\" lists. Chaon's fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45022676287603,"sku":"9780345530387","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1c1b460e-1fee-4418-be85-96074a4a29c3.jpg?v=1779278942","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/stay-awake-9780345530387","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}