# The Start of Something

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- Authors: [Stuart Dybek](https://www.bookquiver.com/stuart-dybek)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-285-4
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.