Attention Please Now
Published on 15. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-932870-37-4 (ISBN)
Description
In his debut short story collection, Pitt pulls his characters from the background, eschewing convention and facing the ironies and difficulties of life in the twenty-first century.
Reviews / Votes
"The central characters of these remarkable stories are oddly ordinary and inordinately odd: that is to say, they are each uniquely qualified to speak for life outside of fiction. Pitt allows them to build the worlds they inhabit from their very particular understandings of what life is, thus endowing their narratives with unpredictable outcomes, and startlingly unexpected revelations along the way. Attention Please Now is a collection possessed of a genuine fictional beauty." -Chuck Wachtel"A remarkable debut by a brilliant young writer." -Brian Morton"The world in these taut, finely wrought stories is and is not the world we know. Pitt pushes his characters to the edge of the possible with a fabulist's eye for the strange, potent detail and the realist's sure grasp of human emotion. A piquant, funny, original debut." -Rachel Pastan
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932870-37-4 (9781932870374)
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St. Louis native Matthew Pitt is the author of two fiction collections: These Are Our Demands (Engine/Ferry Street Books, 2017) and Attention Please Now (Autumn House Press, 2010), winner of the Autumn House Fiction Prize and a Writers' League of Texas Book Award finalist. His stories and nonfiction have been cited in editions of The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Pushcart Prize anthologies. Among his fellowships and awards include honors from the Mississippi Arts Commission, Bronx Council on the Arts, The New York Times, the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Taos Writers' Conferences, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.