You Are Not A Stranger Here, Adam Haslett
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You Are Not A Stranger Here
Stories

Author: Adam Haslett

Narrator: Norman Dietz, Scott Sowers, Steven Crossley, Jonathan Todd Ross, James Jenner

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/25/2014

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

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