Author

Publication

1999-04-15 - Coffee House Press

Language

English

Word Count

70,750 words, Guess

Page Count

283 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL8671304M
  • ISBN-139781566890816
  • ISBN-101566890810
  • OCLC Control Number40588286
  • Library of Congress Control Number98056280
and 2 more
  • LibraryThing737910
  • Goodreads132296

Classifications

  • LCCPS3554.I92S59 1999

Description

This new volume presents short stories from the past twenty-five years by a master of contemporary fiction, collected in book form for the first time. The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise themselves as they speak, in sentences that cross themselves out and start over, as his narrators examine and explore every possible alternative, to the point where these texts become palimpsests, recording not only what is or was, but what might be. And it is left to the reader to determine which is which. Is which.

First Sentence

Red stops in the park to watch an opera rehearsal.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • SleepPaperbackCoffee House Press1999-04-15

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