Fresh Complaint: Stories - Jeffrey Eugenides
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Ari Fliakos
Tags: General Fiction, Short Story, Literature
[Chapterized m4b], The first collection of short fiction from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot., Jeffrey Eugenidess best selling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times., The stories in Fresh Complaint explore equally rich and intriguing territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of Baster to the dreamy, moving account of a young travelers search for enlightenment in Air Mail (selected by Annie Proulx for Best American Short Stories), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other peoples wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in Fresh Complaint, a high school student whose wish to escape th
