Madagascar: New and Selected Stories

by Steven Schwartz

From the O. Henry prize–winning author comes this essential collection of his best stories from nearly four decades of mastery.

Genres: Short Stories

224 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2016

About the author

Steven Schwartz is the author of four story collections To Leningrad in Winter (University of Missouri), Lives of the Fathers (University of Illinois), Little Raw Souls (Autumn House), Madagascar: New and Selected Stories and two novels, Therapy(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and A Good Doctor’s Son (William Morrow). His fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the Cohen Award, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel, two O. Henry Prize Story Awards, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Bread Loaf. He has taught in the low-residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson College and the MFA program at Colorado State University, where he serves as fiction editor for the Colorado Review. His latest novel is The Tenderest of Strings from Regal House.

Reviews

[Kalen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic collection of short stories.

[Alyson Lucille · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars rounded up. Goodish. Some stories were better than others. Some I laughed out loud, some I missed the point of the story.

[Jennifer Spiegel]

smart with strong detail

[HMoore · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book very quickly. Every story was so engaging, and there was a lot of interesting tension between them too--in their similarities/differences and in their juxtaposition. A pleasure to read on the sentence level and with many knockout endings.