In the Gloaming: Stories
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
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When the title story of this collection -- an intense, poignant tale of a mother tending her dying son -- appeared in The New Yorker, it became a literary sensation and inspired two memorable film adaptations. The Wall Street Journal called it "Austerely beautiful....The story's power comes from the understated elegance of Ms. Dark's voice". John Updike selected it for his seminal The Best Short Stories of the Century, noting in his introduction that "few of these stories are more quietly modulated and more moving than this one".
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In the Gloaming affirms Dark's masterful storytelling skills. Dark's fictional terrain is the secrets, estrangements, and losses at the core of her characters' lives. In "Maniacs", two very different sisters love the same man -- one stormily; the other with a steady hidden passion. In "Close", a young father-to-be visits his childhood home and contemplates escape from his wife and the disappointments of his own father's life. By turns dark, funny, and terribly sad, In the Gloaming fulfills the promise of an important new voice in American literature.
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