Getting Lucky: New and Selected Stories, 1982-2012

by Thomas E. Kennedy

-Kennedy's...characters are full, alive, and each story is rich and deep. He writes with wisdom, and it is perhaps this wisdom that turns some of his stories of great sorrow into something triumphant.- - Andre Dubus -Thomas E. Kennedy's . . . stories pulse with humor, moral edge, and a deep sympathy for the human predicament. . . . These stories come as a gift from across the sea of a fine writer's untamed imagination.- - James Carroll, National Book Award-winner -Thomas E. Kennedy's characters are smart, full of want, significantly flawed, scared, yet often hopeful. Readers can't help but be touched by the clarity and generosity that are the hallmarks of Kennedy's very literary and very human stories.- - Linda Swanson-Davies, Glimmer Train -. . . shimmering with emotional honesty . . .- - The New York Times -...wide-ranging and assured...- - The New Yorker -Thomas Kennedy is a true discovery, an author of rare intelligence and moral vision . . . compelling and beautifully written.- -Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life

454 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 2012

About the author

Thomas E. Kennedy is an author of novels, short stories, and essays. He has been a journalist for World Medical Journal and the Danish Medical Association and a translator and editor for Copenhagen's Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims and now teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He lives in Copenhagen with his wife, a physician.

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Reviews

[Carol Mann · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this collection of short stories. Kennedy comes at a story from many different angles. I was always surprised by the approach. Two I particularly enjoyed were "Getting Lucky." about the effects of success, and "The Author of Things" which I think writers will really enjoy.