Time to Go (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) - Hardcover

Dixon, Professor Stephen

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9780801832345: Time to Go (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

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ISBN 10: 0801832349 ISBN 13: 9780801832345

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984

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In Time to Go, the author of the highly acclaimed 14 Stories, Long Made Short, and All Gone has written a dazzling book of eighteen interlocking pieces. Part short story collection, part novel, Time to Go moves from despair to hope, from the passing of things -- time, relationships, businesses, chances -- to the coming of marriage, stability, family, a new life. It is a book that can be in turn frightening and funny, touching and tough -- and one that is, on occasion, all these things at once.

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About the Author:

Stephen Dixon is a two-time National Book Award finalist. Mr. Dixon has written over twenty short story collections and novels, including 14 Stories, Long Made Short, and All Gone, which are available from the Johns Hopkins University Press. He is a professor in The Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University.

Review:

"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy." -- New York Times, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"[Dixon's] stories, strengthened by their unity, almost have a novel's ability to develop character, to suggest a life outside the confines of the plot." -- Boston Globe, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"[Time to Go] emphatically establishes him as one of the short story's most accomplished if quirky practitioners." -- Time, reviewing a previous edition or volume

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