Instructions for a Funeral: Stories by David Means
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Overview: Following the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means here returns to his signature form: the short story. Thanks to his four previous story collections, Means has won himself an international reputation as one of the most innovative short fiction writers working today.
Means branching out beyond the explorations of violence and trauma with which he is often identified, prominently displaying his sly humor and his inimitable way of telling tales that deliciously wind up to punch the reader in the heart. With each story Means pushes into new territory, writing with tenderness and compassion about fatherhood, marriage, a homeless brother, the nature of addiction, and the death of a friend at the hands of a serial-killer nurse. Means transmutes a fistfight in Sacramento into a tender, life-long love story; two FBI agents on a stakeout in the 1920s into a tale of predator and prey, paternal urges and loss; a man’s funeral instructions into a chronicle of organized crime, real estate ventures, and the destructive force of paranoia.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Short Stories
Confessions
Fistfight, Sacramento, August 1950
The Chair
The Terminal Artist
Fatherhood: Three
Farewell, My Brother
The Mighty Shannon
Instructions for a Funeral
El Morro
The Butler’s Lament
The Ice Committee
The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934
Carver & Cobain
Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother
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