Before the End, After the Beginning
Nov 2018 · Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
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Ten "stark, realistic" short stories from the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author 'told in mostly gritty matter-of-fact prose" ( The Boston Globe).
Dagoberto Gilb wrote most of the stories in Before the End, After the Beginning while he recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2009. The result is a powerful and triumphant volume that tackles common themes of identity, mortality, and the physical limitations which arose during his own illness.
Taking readers throughout the American West and Southwest, from Los Angeles and Albuquerque to El Paso and Austin, these ten stories cover territory close to Gilb's heart—a mother and son's relationship in Southern California in the story 'Uncle Rock' or a man looking to shed his chaotic past in 'The Last Time I Saw Junior'—while describing the American experience in his raw, inimitable style.
With this new collection, Gilb offers what may be his most extraordinary achievement to date with "an authenticity that's unimpeachable" ( San Antonio Express News).
Dagoberto Gilb wrote most of the stories in Before the End, After the Beginning while he recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2009. The result is a powerful and triumphant volume that tackles common themes of identity, mortality, and the physical limitations which arose during his own illness.
Taking readers throughout the American West and Southwest, from Los Angeles and Albuquerque to El Paso and Austin, these ten stories cover territory close to Gilb's heart—a mother and son's relationship in Southern California in the story 'Uncle Rock' or a man looking to shed his chaotic past in 'The Last Time I Saw Junior'—while describing the American experience in his raw, inimitable style.
With this new collection, Gilb offers what may be his most extraordinary achievement to date with "an authenticity that's unimpeachable" ( San Antonio Express News).
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About the author
Dagoberto Gilb's previous books are The Flowers, Gritos, Woodcuts of Women, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, and The Magic of Blood, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many magazines, most recently Harper's, The New Yorker, and Callaloo, and is reprinted widely. Gilb is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award. He makes his home in Austin.
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