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A Relative Stranger (Contemporary American Fiction)
A Relative Stranger - Contemporary American Fiction
Author: Charles Baxter
Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday life. The often-curious connections of r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140156287
ISBN-10: 0140156283
Publication Date: 10/1/1991
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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This is an anthology of thirteen stories by Charles Baxter (the author of 'Believers') Many of these stories have been chosen by the panel for inclusion in the annual Best American Short Stories several years in a row.

Reading these stories, I found Baxter's writing to be similar in style and subject matter to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio


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