Product Description: “Prosperous Friends proves Schutt to be one of the finest stylists alive.”—Los Angeles Review of Books“Artful . . . Astonishing . . . Piercingly real . . . The poetic concision and allusiveness of [Schutt’s] prose give the story more heft than a mere two-hundred pages would suggest...read more

In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the sick girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: The silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will Bliss while the subversive Lisa Van de Ven makes dates with Miss Wilkes. The world of private schools and privilege in New York City is funny, poignant, cruel, and at its heart is a sick girl, Astra Dell, "that pale girl from the senior class, the dancer with all the hair, the red hair, knotted or braided or let to fall to her waist, a fever and she consumed."National Book Award Finalist Christine Schutt has created a wickedly original tale of innocence, daring and illness.

A compelling anthology of short fiction by the acclaimed author of Florida and Nightwork includes stories that go behind the doors of the home to reveal the complexities of human relationships, in a volume that includes such tales as 'Young,' 'See Amid the Winter's Snow,' 'They Turn Their Bodies into Spears,' and others. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Placed in the care of relatives at a young age, Alice Fivey struggles to adapt within numerous homes and eventually finds refuge in books, a childhood that leads her to discover her own promise as a writer. A first novel. By the author of Nightwork. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Product Description: In this, her first collection of stories, Christine Schutt gives exquisite and provocative form to feelings and memories. Nightwork is a masterful dreamwork, revealing our lives with the startling clarity we long for.A young woman remembers, after a forbidden embrace, the exact quality of her father's skin, "pitted and stubbled under all that color...read more