{"product_id":"your-duck-is-my-duck-stories-9780062688781","title":"Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg's stories gently compel us to confront the most disturbing truths about ourselves--from our intimate lives as lovers, parents, and children, to our equally troubling roles as citizens on a violent, terrifying planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the six stories in \u003cem\u003eYour Duck is My Duck\u003c\/em\u003e, her first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters--a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors shocked to read a book about their past; a privileged young man who unexpectedly falls into a love affair with a human rights worker caught up in an all-consuming quest that he doesn't understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Eisenberg's world, the forces of money, sex, and power cannot be escaped, and the force of history, whether confronted or denied, cannot be evaded. No one writes better about time, tragedy and grief, and the indifferent but beautiful universe around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEisenberg, Deborah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Eisenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of honors including the 2011 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Eisenberg has published four collections of stories: \u003cem\u003eTransactions in a Foreign Currency\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), \u003cem\u003eUnder the 82nd Airborne\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), \u003cem\u003eAll Around Atlantis\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), and \u003cem\u003eTwilight of the Superheroes\u003c\/em\u003e (2006). Her first two story collections were republished in one volume as \u003cem\u003eThe Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg\u003c\/em\u003e (1997). All four volumes were reprinted in 2010 in \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). She is a professor of writing at Columbia University. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662103941394,"sku":"9780062688781","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f8cb0022-b4e9-4d92-a907-c99787576fda.jpg?v=1733512616","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/your-duck-is-my-duck-stories-9780062688781","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}