The Next New World: Stories
Sep 2014 · Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
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The “chameleon-like” ABA–winning author of Easy in the Islands offers a new collection of eight “surprising [and] memorable” short stories (Publishers Weekly).
The haunting stories in Shacochis’s second collection combine comic wit and carnal certainty with an aura of history. Each of the eight tales here feature outrageously original characters who, through Shacochis’s ability to inhabit a spectacular range of voices, become eerily familiar. Two elderly sisters share a phantom lover; a Virginia patriarch, haunted by ghosts of Confederate soldiers, is buried with their bones; a family celebrates the Fourth of July in the shadow of the father’s Alzheimer’s syndrome; and a musician’s thunderous love turns him into a cannibal.
From renaissance England to Cape Hatteras to the Caribbean islands, readers will find themselves submerged in exquisitely crafted fictions “charged with wit and style . . . intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.” (The New York Times Book Review).
“Shacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.” —The Miami Herald
“If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —Providence Journal
The haunting stories in Shacochis’s second collection combine comic wit and carnal certainty with an aura of history. Each of the eight tales here feature outrageously original characters who, through Shacochis’s ability to inhabit a spectacular range of voices, become eerily familiar. Two elderly sisters share a phantom lover; a Virginia patriarch, haunted by ghosts of Confederate soldiers, is buried with their bones; a family celebrates the Fourth of July in the shadow of the father’s Alzheimer’s syndrome; and a musician’s thunderous love turns him into a cannibal.
From renaissance England to Cape Hatteras to the Caribbean islands, readers will find themselves submerged in exquisitely crafted fictions “charged with wit and style . . . intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.” (The New York Times Book Review).
“Shacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.” —The Miami Herald
“If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —Providence Journal
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“Charged with wit and style . . . Intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.” —New York Times Book Review
“If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —Providence Journal
“Shacochis’s stories are immensely beguiling, peopled with memorable characters conveyed in kock-your-socks-off prose. To enter this . . . collection is to be led into a mansion of the storyteller’s art.” —Newsday
“These stories are filled with compassion, sweet and vivid moments, wry, dark humor . . . verse and voice.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Shacochis’s assets as a writer—his quick reportorial eye, his ear for contemporary speech, his instinctive sympathy for tough, inarticulate lives . . . Mr. Shacochis locates a colony of dreamers reluctant to barter their hopes. “ —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“A remarkable storyteller . . . From such daring and craft comes prose capable of both fantastic revelation and familiar observations.” —People
“Shacochis is an inventive storyteller, sensitive to the land and to the past . . . He plays the full range of language.” — Milwaukee Journal
“Shacochis seduces his readers into the alien territories he has made his own.” — Detroit News
“Rich and sensual, intensely imagined stories . . . by a writer who can both enchant and teach.” —Houston Chronicle
“Shacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.” —Miami Herlad
“Shacochis’s writing shines.” —Baltimore Sun
“There is an up-to-the-minute wildness about this writer. . . . He has the ability to sketch a character in a line . . . and his sentences are a marvelous, rare combination of clarity and richness.” —L.A. Daily News
“Shacochis juxtaposes the comic with the poignant, the beautiful with the grotesque, serenity with sudden violence. . . . Some writers strive for years to develop an individual voice, a style they can call their own. Shacochis is already the swashbuckling master of many voices, all of them compelling.” —Orlando Sentinel
“Each story in this collection is well-written; each commands its own new world.” —Washington Post
“Bob Shacochis writes literature with a capital ‘L.’” —Winston-Salem Journal
“Bob Shacochis has been true to his title and set out for new territory. . . . The Next New World is an altogether illuminating book.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The best stories in The Next New World are not cluttered with experimentalism and are so fine they will undoubtedly be anthologized for decades.” —Dallas Morning News
“Shacochis is one of the very best writers of short ficition—and since this is the Golden Age of the American short story, that is saying a lot.” —Minneapolis Star & Tribune
“These are stories to give us strength. . . . Shacochis is an old-fashioned storyteller, with a mimic’s ear for dialogue and accent.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —Providence Journal
“Shacochis’s stories are immensely beguiling, peopled with memorable characters conveyed in kock-your-socks-off prose. To enter this . . . collection is to be led into a mansion of the storyteller’s art.” —Newsday
“These stories are filled with compassion, sweet and vivid moments, wry, dark humor . . . verse and voice.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Shacochis’s assets as a writer—his quick reportorial eye, his ear for contemporary speech, his instinctive sympathy for tough, inarticulate lives . . . Mr. Shacochis locates a colony of dreamers reluctant to barter their hopes. “ —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“A remarkable storyteller . . . From such daring and craft comes prose capable of both fantastic revelation and familiar observations.” —People
“Shacochis is an inventive storyteller, sensitive to the land and to the past . . . He plays the full range of language.” — Milwaukee Journal
“Shacochis seduces his readers into the alien territories he has made his own.” — Detroit News
“Rich and sensual, intensely imagined stories . . . by a writer who can both enchant and teach.” —Houston Chronicle
“Shacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.” —Miami Herlad
“Shacochis’s writing shines.” —Baltimore Sun
“There is an up-to-the-minute wildness about this writer. . . . He has the ability to sketch a character in a line . . . and his sentences are a marvelous, rare combination of clarity and richness.” —L.A. Daily News
“Shacochis juxtaposes the comic with the poignant, the beautiful with the grotesque, serenity with sudden violence. . . . Some writers strive for years to develop an individual voice, a style they can call their own. Shacochis is already the swashbuckling master of many voices, all of them compelling.” —Orlando Sentinel
“Each story in this collection is well-written; each commands its own new world.” —Washington Post
“Bob Shacochis writes literature with a capital ‘L.’” —Winston-Salem Journal
“Bob Shacochis has been true to his title and set out for new territory. . . . The Next New World is an altogether illuminating book.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The best stories in The Next New World are not cluttered with experimentalism and are so fine they will undoubtedly be anthologized for decades.” —Dallas Morning News
“Shacochis is one of the very best writers of short ficition—and since this is the Golden Age of the American short story, that is saying a lot.” —Minneapolis Star & Tribune
“These are stories to give us strength. . . . Shacochis is an old-fashioned storyteller, with a mimic’s ear for dialogue and accent.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
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