Bibliograph

Fresh complaint, stories, Jeffrey Eugenides

Type

Label

Fresh complaint, stories, Jeffrey Eugenides

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Fresh complaint

Responsibility statement

Jeffrey Eugenides

Sub title

stories

Summary

Ranging from the reproductive antics of Baster to the wry, moving account of a young traveler's search for enlightenment in Air Mail, this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in Bronze, a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling, beautifully written, and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long

Target audience

adult

Creator