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Stay awake : stories / Dan Chaon.
- Description: 254 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, ©2012.
- ISBN: 9780345530370 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0345530373 (hardback)
Available copies
- 12 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 13 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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| Beverly Main | Adult Fiction | Fiction/ Chaon (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Danvers | Display | Fic / Chaon (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Fiction | FICTION/Chaon (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Marblehead | Adult Fiction | FICTION CHAON, DAN 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Melrose | New Books (Browsing Room) | Fiction Chaon (Text to phone) | Checked out | 06/03/2013 |
| Peabody Main | Adult Fiction | Fiction/ Chaon (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Peabody South Branch | Adult Fiction | Fiction/Chaon (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Phillips OWHL | Unset | FICTION C36215ST (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Reading | Adult Fiction | FICTION CHA (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Salem | Adult Fiction | FIC/CHAON (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| Contents: | The bees -- Patrick Lane, flabbergasted -- Stay awake -- Long delayed, always expected -- I wake up -- To Psychic Underworld -- St. Dismas -- Thinking of you in your time of sorrow -- Slowly we open our eyes -- Shepherdess -- Take this, Brother, may it serve you well -- The Farm, the gold, the lily-white hands. |
| Summary: | "Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection--and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations. A father's life is upended by his son's night terrors--and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of "empty-nest syndrome"; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes--on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house. Dan Chaon's stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm--in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake"-- |
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