Fools - by Joan Silber (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Longlisted for the National Book Award<br /><br /> 'Linked' doesn't begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven...Emotionally, it's astounding...[A] beautiful, intricate, and wise collection. --<em>New York Times Book Review</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber's dazzling new story cycle tackles this question head-on.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Excellent...the pleasure of Ms. Silber's overlapping tales is that in all of them characters do something to surprise you.-- "Wall Street Journal"<br><br>I loved <em>Fools</em>. The stories always surprised me, with the narratives unfolding as if in real time, and then turning unexpected in so many ways, twisting into stories that felt like remembered history, but with such added emotion that I thought about the characters for several days afterward as if they were here in my house.--Susan Straight<br><br>Joan Silber's stories charm us. And amuse us. And engage us. And move us. And even enlighten us. <em>Fools</em> embraces us all.--Amy Bloom<br><br>Silber deftly constructs whole, fully realized lives in just a few pages, and her use of first-person narratives gives these stories an intimate, confessional feeling, as if you've struck up a conversation with a particularly talkative stranger.-- "Boston Globe"<br><br>Sly, graceful.-- "Daily Beast"<br><br>So well made and pleasurable...[Silber] kicks ass.-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"<br><br>A unique and fascinating collection...The collective vision this provokes is what makes the book intellectually satisfying, the separate lives it convincingly displays are what move the heart.--Antonya Nelson<br><br>Dazzling...written in elegant prose and with clairvoyant wisdom.--Lily Tuck<br><br>Great fiction...It is impossible not to be enthralled.--Christine Schutt<br><br>Joan Silber is one of the wisest, finest, most capacious observers of the human condition writing now. We should all be as heartbreakingly foolish and beautiful as the characters in this collection. Silber understands them inside out, and brings them close to us, as no one else can.--Stacey D'Erasmo<br><br>Astonishing for its range, for its sweeping sense of time and place, and most especially for its deep insight into the way small choices can circle out to shape lives, and even human history. This is a beautiful book and an important literary achievement.--Dan Chaon<br><br>A wonderfully winning exploration of impetuousness in all of its appalling and appealing forms.--Jim Shepard<br>
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