The Collected Stories

by Leonard Michaels

Book Overview

Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they appeared in The New Yorker, Threepenny Review, and Partisan Review.

At every stage in his career, Michaels...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374126542
• ISBN13: 9780374126544
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels

This book is a collection of short stories. The book is a paperback that cost $2.02 but appears as if brand new. I received it within 10 days from New York and I am in Union City, CA. It would have been nearly impossible to find in a local book store.

Brilliant Stories

All these stories are good but the Nachman stories are amazing--funny, sad, poignant, revelatory--everything I ever wanted from a work of fiction. Michaels was a great writer.

dude is a genius

Writing this precise doesn't get learned. It comes straight from something higher. This is as poetic as you are likely read. Words will smash your face in. Desparation looms everywhere, and hope is just around a deserted corner.

A great collection

These stories present vision of many different times and places, all told with precision and biting humor. Many take place in New York in the '50s and '60s. You will witness a major social and cultural center at a crucial moment. You will feel you lived there for a brief time while you read the story.