Jostling through the light and shadow of Malacia s streets goes a crowd of people; dukes, wealthy merchants, bankrupt families, actresses, priests, courtesans, spongers, soldiers, and down-at-heel showmen. They are seen through the eyes of Perian de Chirolo, actor and man-about-town, whose adventures take him through all strata of Malacian society and into the heart of its darkest secrets, both lay and spiritual. Episodes idyllic and chilling follow each other in comic succession . . . This atmospheric novel . . . sets out in dramatic form many of the conflicts and contradictions of our own day and is the most excitingly original story yet told by an author of incomparable vitality and imagination.  A picaresque novel which attempts to capture something of the mysterious world of G. B. Tiepolo s etchings. The down-at-heel actor, de Chirolo, sees everything in the embalmed city state of Malacia as art or artifice, until reality catches up with him.

Too Late

DIXON, STEPHEN

Harpercollins Publisher

Quite contrary: The Mary and Newt story

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Harper&Row

Fiction. Together for the first time, the interlinked tales of Stephen Dixon's DEAR ABIGAIL AND LATE STORIES in a beautifully designed set. "Reveals Stephen Dixon as one of the two great American storytellers today. The other is George Saunders."--El PaÍs "Stephen Dixon is one of the great secret masters--too secret. I return again and again to his stories for writerly inspiration, moral support and comic relief... Please read him, you."--Jonathan Lethem "Stephen Dixon has somehow been overlooked as one of the masters of recording how a person thinks, of what it feels like to be alive inside a brain... He should be remembered as one of postmodern modernism's greats."--Blake Butler

Dear Abigail and Late Stories: Two Book Set

Short Stories & Anthologies

Trnsfr Books

"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy".--"New York Times Book Review".

Long Made Short (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

Contemporary

Johns Hopkins University Press

Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel - a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed through a fish-eye lens-slightly distorted and off-center, yet recognizable and often familiar. 14 Stories is part comedy, part tragedy, part social comment and part spoof. But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.

14 Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

The author of the critically acclaimed Frog presents a collection of what he considers to be his finest short fiction that incisively captures the absurdities of urban America, the nature of modern relationships, and the complexities of human life. 10,000 first printing.

The Stories of Stephen Dixon

Henry Holt Co.

In the author's first novel since Frog, a nominee for the National Book Award, a father mentally replays, in eight variations, the shooting of his daughters on an interstate highway. 15,000 first printing. $12,500 ad/promo.

Interstate: A Novel

Draws a portrait of an American man through a collection of shorter stories documenting his romantic and sexual encounters over the course of forty years, showing the pain and wonder of love that are such a part of life in the modern world

Gould: A Novel in Two Novels

Humor & Satire

National Book Award Finalist, 1991

Frog: A Novel

Holt Paperbacks

National Book Award Finalist, 1996

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Too Late

Quite contrary: The Mary and Newt story

Dear Abigail and Late Stories: Two Book Set

Long Made Short (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

14 Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

The Stories of Stephen Dixon

Interstate: A Novel

Gould: A Novel in Two Novels

Frog: A Novel

Interstate: A Novel