NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post â€¢ San Francisco Chronicle Â Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your

Stay Awake

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post â€¢ San Francisco Chronicle
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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.
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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 disconnectionâ€”and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations.
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A fatherâ€™s life is upended by his sonâ€™s night terrorsâ€”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 â€œempty-nest syndromeâ€; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notesâ€”on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that thereâ€™s something off, something sinister, in his late parentsâ€™ house.
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Dan Chaonâ€™s stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. TheyÂ exist in a twilight realmâ€”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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Praise for Stay Awake
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â€œEerily beautiful . . . [Chaon] is the modern day John Cheever.â€â€”Boston Sunday Globe
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â€œPowerful and disturbing . . . The shocks in this collection are many.â€â€”The Washington Post
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â€œChaon is able to create fully realized characters in mere pages. . . . This collection is further proof that Chaon is one of the best fiction writers working right now.â€â€”Omaha World-Herald
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â€œThere are not many fiction writers who can do what Dan Chaon can do. . . . [He is] a literary force.â€â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer
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â€œIntense and suspenseful . . . a highly recommended work, not to be missed.â€â€”Library Journal (starred review)
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â€œMesmerizing . . . gripping, masterful fiction.â€â€”The Plain Dealer
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â€œSuperbly disquieting.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review
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Donâ€™t miss the exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Emma Straub at the back of the book.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0345530381_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-10-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345530387

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0345530381_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2012-10-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345530387

Stay Awake

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