Full name: Cold Snap: Stories

Author: Thom Jones Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316473071 0316473073

Offering 10 stories reprinted from magazines like the New Yorker and Playboy, Jones's second collection of short fiction displays the gritty, fatalistic vision and narrative adrenaline that distinguished his NBA-nominated The Pugilist at Rest. Set in Africa, the West Coast and other locales, these tales are teeming slices of life, full of unexpected pathos and black humor amid imagery of warfare, starvation, disease and decay Similar books: Scar Vegas by Tom Paine Honored Guest by Joy Williams Come to Me by Amy Bloom The Rendezvous by Daphne Du Maurier All the Time in the World by E. L. Doctorow The Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin Fools by Joan Silber Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom Short Cuts by Raymond Carver The Stories of Paul Bowles by Paul Bowles God Lives in St. Petersburg by Tom Bissell Because They Wanted to by Mary Gaitskill Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore