Full name: Aliens of Affection: Stories

Author: Padgett Powell Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805052138 9780805060003 0805052135 0805060006

Aliens of Affection" marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, "Typical," left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living - refusing to be dunked in what Saul Bellow has called the "marinade of correctness" - their concerns are less for independence than for the maintenance of sanity itself. Emotional estrangement seems both inevitable and worth fighting against to the middle-aged heroine of the O. Henry prizewinner "Trick or Treat"; to the unmistakably American roofer of "Wayne" (who was introduced in "Typical" ); to the deserted husband, father, and non-vet of "Dump"; and to the fantastic heroes in three stories grouped as "All Along the Watchtower. Similar books: What Was Mine by Ann Beattie Nightwork by Christine Schutt Here We Are in Paradise by Tony Earley At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte Five Stories by Willa Cather Final Vinyl Days by Jill McCorkle A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle Cruising Paradise by Sam Shepard A Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau