Collected Stories
The Collected Stories of Nicholas Delbanco
Published on 24. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
740 pages
978-1-62897-564-2 (ISBN)
Description
A writer of "enormous sophistication" (The New York Times), Nicholas Delbanco has established himself as an intelligent and erudite fount of American literature. Reprise collects three volumes of short stories, bringing together half a century of Delbanco's writing for the first time.
Nicholas Delbanco has been many things: a student of John Updike; a teacher of noteworthy authors like Bret Easton Ellis, Andrea Barrett, and Jesmyn Ward; and even, for a while, the next-door neighbor of James Baldwin. Across a career spanning nearly six decades, Delbanco has published more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and edited a dozen more. He is the recipient of numerous awards. The stories collected here represent a sort of retrospective, capturing the restless and boundlessly intelligent Nicholas Delbanco at key moments in his artistic life.
With painterly eye for detail and texture, Reprise offers readers an invitation to glimpse American literature at its most elegant and graceful.
Nicholas Delbanco has been many things: a student of John Updike; a teacher of noteworthy authors like Bret Easton Ellis, Andrea Barrett, and Jesmyn Ward; and even, for a while, the next-door neighbor of James Baldwin. Across a career spanning nearly six decades, Delbanco has published more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and edited a dozen more. He is the recipient of numerous awards. The stories collected here represent a sort of retrospective, capturing the restless and boundlessly intelligent Nicholas Delbanco at key moments in his artistic life.
With painterly eye for detail and texture, Reprise offers readers an invitation to glimpse American literature at its most elegant and graceful.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Nicholas Delbanco"Nicholas Delbanco writes like an inspired maniac, with a brilliant outpouring of image and idea." -Hudson Review
"Delbanco's book of narrative riffs and meditations is a wonder. He may know more than just about anyone about the serious play that it literary life, and he writes of it with great spirit and flair." -Lorrie Moore
"Delbanco, like Malraux, has extended his method to explore a different context; a sensibility of enormous sophistication stretches itself to take in both the private and public domains . . . An excellent writer is among us, and if we neglect him . . .we shall have to apologize to posterity." -John
Leonard, New York Times
"The wisdom of a superb, experienced writer and inspired teacher is here distilled for our pleasure. We have much to learn from Delbanco's maturity, broad perspective and erudition, his devotion to literature and to all those who struggle to achieve it." -Philip Lopate
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
768 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62897-564-2 (9781628975642)
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Person
Nicholas Delbanco is a British-born American who received his BA from Harvard and his MA from Columbia University. An editor and author of more than thirty books, Delbanco has received numerous awards-among them a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where he served as Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing and of the Hopwood Awards.