Sleep: Stories

by Stephen Dixon

This new volume presents short stories from the past twenty-five years by a master of contemporary fiction, collected in book form for the first time. The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise themselves as they speak, in sentences that cross themselves out and start over, as his narrators examine and explore every possible alternative, to the point where these texts become palimpsests, recording not only what is or was, but what might be. And it is left to the reader to determine which is which. Is which.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

283 pages, Unknown Binding

First published April 1, 1999

About the author

Stephen Dixon was a novelist and short story author who published hundreds of stories in an incredible list of literary journals. Dixon was nominated for the National Book Award twice--in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate--and his writing also earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize.

Reviews

[David Markwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

No writer is as funny and as human as Stephen Dixon.

[Isabel Pliszka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Obsessive streams of consciousness…a short story collection unique from any other I’ve read