In The Gloaming: Stories

Alice Elliott Dark

may 2022 · Simon and Schuster

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From the acclaimed author of Fellowship Point, an “almost perfectly crafted” collection of stories—the title piece successfully made into an HBO film (The Baltimore Sun).

“Alice Elliott Dark excels at conveying powerful emotions through understatement” in this captivating collection of stories about the complex relationships between lovers, spouses, neighbors, and family members (The Wall Street Journal). By turns funny, sad, and disturbing, these are stories of remarkable potency.

When the austere and moving title story of this collection appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, it inspired two memorable film adaptations, and John Updike selected it for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. In these ten stories, Alice Elliott Dark visits the fictional town of Wynnemoor and its residents, present and past, with skill, compassion, and wit.

“Alice Elliott Dark writes with great sympathy for the complexity of ordinary lives. Her stories are like the proverbial iceberg: We look at the tip but are compelled to think about all that’s hidden below.” —USA Today

“Memorable . . . With ‘The Secret Spot’ and the less pristine narratives in In the Gloaming, Dark does what she does best: lay bare the most personal of troubles in controlled but devastating prose.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Dark is carving out a certain territory as her own. Dissimilar as theses tales are, read together they take on the feel of a fugue: What used to be, what could have been, and how did I get here anyway? Dark doesn’t have the answers any more than her characters do, but their struggles and her pitch-perfect prose make for fine reading.” —The Washington Post

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Alice Elliott Dark is the author the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, as well as two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. Her award-winning story “In the Gloaming” was made into two films and was chosen for inclusion in Best American Stories of the Century. Dark is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is an associate professor at Rutgers-Newark in the MFA program.