Ron Carlson, Author . Picador $23 (194p) ISBN 978-0-312-28605-7
In this taut, focused collection, veteran short story writer Carlson (The Hotel Eden) captures the ordinary occurrences that define our lives. Sharing graceful, unadorned prose and elegant metaphors, the nine stories and two brief sketches collected
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Ron Carlson, Author . HarperTempest $15.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-380-97837-3
"This is what we know about death, right here," Witt Dimmick says to his friends Larry and Rafferty, pointing at the burned-out remains of a TV set that was, moments ago, the stage for their latest mad-scientist experiment (trying to revive...
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Ron Carlson, Author . Norton $14.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-393-32479-2
Comprising stories from three out-of-print collections (The News of the World
; Plan B for the Middle Class
; The Hotel Eden
), this hefty compilation showcases Carson's chatty, often playful narrative style and his fascination with the tricky...
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Ron Carlson, Author . Viking $23.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-03850-3
Two stoics and a teenage misanthrope are brought together in Idaho's Rocky Mountains to build a ramp to nowhere in Carlson's first novel in 25 years, a tour de force of grief, atonement and the cost of loyalty. Darwin Gallegos, spiritually...
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Ron Carlson, Author . Viking $25.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-670-02100-0
The dense Wind River Mountains of western Wyoming is where Carlson (Five Skies
) sets his brooding latest, a tale of expired love and desperate measures. Mack, son of a longtime rancher, has made many missteps in life, culminating in a recent stint...
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Ron Carlson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $15.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-393-02353-4
Carlson resembles the father in one of his loveliest stories, ""The H Street Sledding Record,'' a man who throws manure on his roof every Christmas Eve to convince his children that reindeer landed there. In these brief tales that immediately...
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Ron Carlson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-393-03370-0
Carlson's winning new collection of short fiction issues from a sensibility set ever so slightly--and variously--askew. His range swings from a surreal monologue by a typical-sounding mother who apparently lives with her children on an aircraft...
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Ron Carlson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-04068-5
Toward the end of ""Keith,"" the second story of the dozen in this funny and poignant collection, one character implores another: ""Make something up."" It's a brief moment, but a telling one. Carlson, a short-story writer (Plan B for the Middle...
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Ron Carlson. Viking, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-02507-7
The smalltown homecoming featured in the fourth novel from Carlson (The Signal) proves a bittersweet and nostalgic one. Jimmy Brand, following a 30-year absence from his hometown and a successful career in New York City as a novelist, returns to...
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Ron Carlson. Red Hen Press, $14.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-59709-275-3
Carlson (The Signal) is back with a collection of super-short "flash fiction," a slim volume of stories that are both funny and moving, and uniformly excellent. The first story, from which the book's title is taken, exhibits Carlson's primary...
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