Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories

by David Means

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize

A new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" (The Observer).

Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They tell stories of patients lost and patients saved, of the darkest corners of human suffering and the luminous moments that break through, even here, in the shadow...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374606072
• ISBN13: 9780374606077
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"