Pleasure Palace: New and Selected Stories

At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empathy for her characters, Thurm's acclaimed work has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories and numerous other anthologies. This volume, selected from her four short story collections--with stories written over a span of 42 years--shows Thurm's remarkable craft, never failing to reveal both her emotional acuity and her pitch-dark humor.

Author: Marian Thurm
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Delphinium Books
Published: 05/25/2021
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781953002044

About the Author
Thurm, Marian: - Marian Thurm is the author of seven novels and four short story collections, including the most recent, Today Is Not Your Day, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her novel The Clairvoyant was a New York Times Notable Book. Her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Michigan Quarterly, Narrative Magazine, the Southampton Review, and many other magazines, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories, and numerous other anthologies. Her books have been translated into Japanese, Swedish, Dutch, German, and Italian. She has taught at Yale and Barnard, in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence, and at the Yale Writers' Workshop.