Deborah Eisenberg

Dorothy Baker

A lesbian graduate student from Berkeley tries to sabotage her twin sister's wedding to a young doctor from Connecticut.

Cassandra at the Wedding

Your Duck Is My Duck

"One of America's finest writers."--San Francisco Chronicle "Concentrated bursts of perfection."--The Times (London) "Shimmering stories that possess the power and charm to move us." --The New York Times "Exhilarating."--Harper's Magazine "Outstanding."--Christian Science Monitor "Eisenberg simply writes like no one else."--Elle "Eisenberg's stories possess all the steely beauty of a knife wrapped in velvet."--The Boston Globe "Dazzling."--Time Out New York "Magic."--Newsweek "Comic, elegant and pitch perfect."--Vanity Fair "One of the great fiction writers living in America today."--The Dallas Morning News "There aren't many contemporary novels as shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny as Eisenberg's best stories."--The New York Times Book Review Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing "exquisitely distilled stories" which "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life" to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997) and her most recent collection-Twilight of the Superheroes (2006).

Stories

The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

Seven stories tell of a tragic love affair, a teenager's involvement with an older man, a struggle to quit smoking, and a woman who discovers she is in love with an old friend

Transactions in a Foreign Currency

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

The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg

Lauren Groff

Jim Shepard

Alice Munro

Edith Pearlman

Presents a collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2012, along with essays by three distinguished writers and jurors on their favorite pieces.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013

A collection of stories delves into the worlds of misfits and forbidden thoughts, presenting the tales of such characters as a boarding school girl who is taken to an unexpected future and a college student who discovers he is a voyeur. Reprint.

All Around Atlantis

Autora fundamental, tan genial como personalísima, y con una escritura obsesionada por dar cuenta tanto de las sensaciones corporales como de las penas, los anhelos, y los vaivenes mentales de sus personajes, Deborah Eisenberg dedica un año entero a la escritura de cada uno de sus relatos. Un cuento de Eisenberg nunca es solo un cuento, sino más bien una condensación de múltiples capas y dimensiones textuales; una entidad que, a fuerza de maestría, en su densidad reluce con un brillo único y con una tersura tan simple y tan compleja como la vida misma. 
Con La venganza de los dinosaurios Chai completa la selección de sus mejores relatos. “Peligros como estos” retrata la enmarañada amistad, ambivalente pero al mismo tiempo inevitable, de dos jóvenes en Nueva York; “Cómo era verse con Chris” aborda desde la inocencia cuestiones inquietantes; “El robo” profundiza sobre el desencanto de la adultez; “Sirenas” narra, desde una mirada infantil, cómo se hace pedazos una familia; “La venganza de los dinosaurios” disecciona la complejidad de los vínculos familiares; quizás “El crepúsculo de los superhéroes” sea el mejor cuento sobre el 11 de septiembre jamás escrito. 
En cada uno de estos relatos, la mirada sagaz y sumamente singular de Eisenberg genera una extrañeza que resulta familiar, una excentricidad en la que uno se reconoce. Su maestría reside en la sutileza y habilidad con que se acerca al complejo núcleo vital de cada uno de sus personajes. El paso del tiempo, las dificultades y confusiones de los vínculos amorosos y el desconcierto frente a un mundo que parece estar derrumbándose son narrados por Deborah Eisenberg con ternura, humor y una lucidez fuera de serie. 

La Venganza de los Dinosaurios

"Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, Eisenberg's first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters--a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors shocked to read a book about their past; a privileged young man who unexpectedly falls into a love affair with a human rights worker caught up in an all-consuming quest that he doesn't understand."--

Taj Mahal

Henry Green

Back

Twoja kaczka jest moją kaczką

No further information has been provided for this title.

PICADOR SHOTS - 'Some Other, Better Otto'

A collection of short stories by the author of Transactions in a Foreign Currency features a tale of a two childhood friends who renew old ties and recall old wounds, and a suburban dinner party that uncovers dark truths. Reprint.

Under the 82nd Airborne

Twenty-seven short stories by "a contemporary master" (The New York Times). Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing "exquisitely distilled stories" which "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life" to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997) and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). "One of America's finest writers."—San Francisco Chronicle "Concentrated bursts of perfection."—The Times(London) "Shimmering stories that possess the power and charm to move us." —The New York Times"Exhilarating."—Harper's Magazine "Outstanding."—Christian Science Monitor "Eisenberg simply writes like no one else."—Elle "Eisenberg's stories possess all the steely beauty of a knife wrapped in velvet."—The Boston Globe "Dazzling."—Time Out New York "Magic."—Newsweek "Comic, elegant and pitch perfect."—Vanity Fair"One of the great fiction writers living in America today."—The Dallas Morning News "There aren't many contemporary novels as shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny as Eisenberg's best stories."—The New York Times Book Review

Seven unconventional stories feature characters caught in bewildering situations, from a college student on vacation who happens upon a guerrilla war to a group of schoolchildren trying to navigate the waters of adult corruption swirling around them.

Deborah Eisenberg is almost unmatched in her mastery of the short story form. In this, her seventh collection, she demonstrates her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, unflinchingly honest studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband's life-threatening illness; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg evokes painful and tender truths, both poetic and deeply political. 'The stories are, in their masterly crosshatching of light and dark, concentrated bursts of perfection’ The Times ‘Wonderful . . . written with a ruthless, compassionate eye and a subtle humour' Guardian ‘Further confirms her reputation as one of the most imaginative and exquisitely perceptive of today’s short story writers' Scotland on Sunday 'She makes you smile as much as she haunts with stark truths . . . In the US, many people consider Eisenberg to be up there with Alice Munro, the female monarch of the short-story form. It’s time the UK considered putting her up there too’ Financial Times

Twilight of the Superheroes

Comedy Characters: 3 male, 4 female, optional extras. Interior Set. Melanie has rented a country house where she is joined by her friend Rachel who came for a weekend but forgot to leave and by their school friend Steve. They spend nearly a year on the sofa meandering through a mental landscape of phobias, friendships, work, sex, slovenliness and epistemology. Other people happen by: Steve's girlfriend, a virtuous and annoying man Melanie picked up in a bar, and a couple who a

Pastorale

Jennifer Bartlett

Fiction writer and playwright Deborah Eisenberg situates these paintings in the most unexpected and provocative ways. Commentaries on each of the plates become the springboard for an extensive conversation with the artist. A visual reference guide to each of the paintings further expands their discussion.

Air, 24 Hours

Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Eisenberg pries open daily life to explore the hidden mechanisms of human behavior. "Eisenberg is an influential presence in contemporary short fiction with her strong portrayals of characters dealing with the confusion of modern life." - Library Journal

Deborah Eisenberg

Books

Your next favorite book is out there