# The Start of Something

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- Book: [The Start of Something](https://www.bookquiver.com/stuart-dybek/the-start-of-something) ([The Start of Something.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stuart-dybek/the-start-of-something.md))
- Authors: [Stuart Dybek](https://www.bookquiver.com/stuart-dybek)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-422-4
- Published: 2016-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'One of the most soulful writers in America, and a national treasure' George Saunders Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the short story The Start of Something is a visionary work following the lovelorn beatniks, hard-boiled gangsters and jaded academics of America, journeying through a haze of drugs, dreams and lucid memory. Seductive and freewheeling, each story glittering with the found poetry of the street, this is the definitive introduction to a life’s work by a writer who has re-enchanted short fiction with every new collection.