Full name: Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories

Author: Anya Johanna DeNiro Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781931520171 1931520178

"I'm thrilled to see him in bookstores at last."--Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude "Filled with stunning images and incantatory rhythms."--Time Out Chicago A wide-ranging and assured, surprising, and funny debut collection. Alan DeNiro's gently surreal stories use a toolbox of genres (including science fiction and fantasy) to grapple with issues of identity, family, gender, and politics. (Think Aimee Bender or George Saunders.) Even in the oddest moments, these characters are real people grappling with real relationships and real heartbreaks. The title story was shortlisted for the O. Henry Award. A Book Sense Pick. Alan DeNiro lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Similar books: Vampires In The Lemon Grove by Karen Russell Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt Selected Stories by Andre Dubus Gutshot by Amelia Gray When the Nines Roll Over by David Benioff The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas by Davy Rothbart Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson There's Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides 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