The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg

When Deborah Eisenberg's first book of stories, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, was published, John Updike noted: Whenever a new writer arrives, a new window of life is opened, and this has happened here. The scope and depth of Eisenberg's idiosyncratic vision were even more apparent in her second collection, Under the 82nd Airborne, which The New York Times Book Review called nothing short of extraordinary.

As these two collections gathered here into one volume show, Eisenberg's stories have an astonishing power and range. Her characters, whether they are walking in the streets of Manhattan or seemingly abandoned in foreign countries, continually make disquieting and sometimes life-threatening discoveries about themselves, discoveries that illuminate not only their own lives but also the wider net of relationships in which they are enmeshed.

The reprinting of these two collections as one is sure to win Eisenberg's stories an even wider audience than they now enjoy. - Publishers Weekly

Author: Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 01/01/1997
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.08w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780374524920

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/30/1996 pg. 53
Library Journal 01/01/1997 pg. 151

About the Author

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of stories. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught at the University of Virginia since 1994, where she is currently a professor of creative writing.

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