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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250872510
• ISBN13: 9781250872517
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.2"