Gordon Lish
1) Peru
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, "There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it." Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret-real or imagined-unfolds: in 1940, six-year-old Gordon murdered his hare lipped rival, Steven Adinoff, in a Long Island sandbox ... (unless he didn't). Peru's narrator weaves together strands of disconnected, mesmerizing trivia, resurrecting memories of the...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With Death and So Forth, esteemed writer and editor Gordon Lish returns with a new book of scintillating short fiction. With his trademark precision, wit, and wiliness, Lish writes outside the margins and around the edges of the death, loss, and the fractiousness and fragmentation of language"--Provided by publisher.
