Fresh Complaint

Fresh Complaint

2017 • 285 pages

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Average rating3.4

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This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.

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June 27, 2021

Pretty solid set of short stories. Oddly, I found I had a strong preference for the stories he published in the '80s/'90s over his more recent stories.

October 30, 2017

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