The former was chosen by poet john ashbery as the best book of. Christine schutt, an american novelist and short story writer, has been a finalist for the national. Nightwork is a masterful dreamwork, revealing with startling clarity the dark and unsettling sexuality that lies just beneath the surface of the mundane. Beyond the major publishers seasonal lists to outoftheway presses and lesserknown writers. Read nightwork stories by christine schutt available from rakuten kobo. Nightwork is a masterful dreamwork, revealing our lives with the startling clarity we long for. Library of congress cataloginginpublication data schutt, christine. The writing is spare and the stories brief, creating an. Christine schutts work not only in the individual sentence but in the paragraph as well. A young woman remembers, after a forbidden embrace, the exact quality of her fathers skin, pitted and stubbled under all that color. Nightwork by christine schutt, 9781564782397, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Bat flap and smoke in the dark of his voice make me hold back this need, hold back from dad, whose fleshy.
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