The Kind I'm Likely to Get: A Collection

In her New Yorker review of The KGB Bar Reader, Daphne Merkin called attention to Ken Foster's introduction: "His last sentence ... caught me up short, because it seemed both so obvious and so original: 'And that the best writers reveal something about themselves that a smarter person would choose to hide.'" In this collection, Foster does exactly that, as he explores the limits of what we can expect from others, and from ourselves. From New Orleans to Portland to Manhattan and Paris, Foster's characters circle each other as well as their own fates in fourteen stories that evoke Mary Gaitskill, Lorrie Moore, and Denis Johnson. The heart of what we're looking for in life provides the backbone to these surprising and poetic pieces -- in which Foster ultimately reveals the gap between what we hope for and the kind we're likely to get.

Author: Ken Foster
Publisher: PerfectBound
Published: 07/07/1999
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.08w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780688169800

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1999 pg. 650
Publishers Weekly 06/07/1999 pg. 73
Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 37
Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 138
People Weekly 09/06/1999 pg. 51
New York Times 08/29/1999 pg. 12
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 74