Bone by Bone

by Gary Krist

For the Garden State, his 1988 collection of short stories, Gary Krist received the highly prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The reviews... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151820643
• ISBN13: 9780151820641
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Intelligent, Readable, Often Profound

I read this after reading Krist's great thriller BAD CHEMISTRY. This collection is entirely different in some ways, but just as compelling. Krist gets into the heads of so many different kinds of people, and he always convinces. The last story especially stays with you long after you close the book. Best of all, things really happen in this collection, not like some literary collections, where there's so much navel-gazing that you want to scream. This collection is full of everyday drama occurring in the lives of everyday people--but somehow, through the lens of Krist's art--it all becomes extraordinary.