Cries for Help, Various: Stories

by Padgett Powell

Named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Vanity Fair

"Rifles through fear, identity, meaning, and cultural memory in forty-four short, surreal stories." --Vanity Fair

"By turns moving, funny, and maddening.... very much in the key of Donald Barthelme." --The New York Times Book Review

"Somehow both grounded and absurd, each one of the stories trying get at that heart of the confusion and sadness at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936787318
• ISBN13: 9781936787319
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"