The New York Stories Three Volumes in One Collection edition by Ben Tanzer Literature Fiction eBooks
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THE PUBLISHING EVENT NINE YEARS IN THE MAKING. In 2006, celebrated author Ben Tanzer began working on a series of short stories all set in the fictional upstate New York town of Two Rivers, most of them published in various literary journals over the years and eventually collected into the three small volumes Repetition Patterns (2008), So Different Now (2011), and After the Flood (2014). Now for the first time, all 33 of these stories have been put together into one paperback edition, highlighting the long-term planning of themes and motifs that Tanzer has been building into these pieces the entire time. Featuring dark character studies of childhood, middle age, and (lack of) grace under pressure, these stories are considered by many to be among the best work of Tanzer's career, and voracious fans of his short work will surely be pleased and satisfied to have these small masterpieces collected together into one easy-to-read volume. So take a stool at Thirsty's, order another Yuengling, and be prepared to be transported into the black heart of the American small-town soul, as one of our nation's best contemporary authors takes us on a journey across space and time that will not be soon forgotten.
The New York Stories Three Volumes in One Collection edition by Ben Tanzer Literature Fiction eBooks
I love that these stories are all finally out together and in print. I've been on this ride from the beginning, never questioning going all the way to the end. Some of these stories were my first experience with Tanzer, and I kept going back for more. It was great to watch this develop over the years, but it's best that everything is together now because as I read more and more of these stories as time went on I increasingly realized how much they were a part of a single big picture. I couldn't wait until it was complete to read the individual pieces, but now readers don't have to wait. It's all here and I picked up my own print copy so I'd have it all together. Do the same and get ready to change your life.Here are my reviews from the individual pieces as they came out so you can see my reactions to each as I came across them and the developing whole while it was still in the process of developing:
- "Repetition Patterns" This is my first experience with one of Tanzer's books, and I couldn't be more thrilled. I love how Tanzer manages to squeeze so much description in without really seeming like he's doing it. The prose is still tight and clean, but more is there than it seems and there are some real poetic phrasings here and there. I love the way the stories proceed as well. Tanzer manages to be both hard hitting and mournfully yearning at the same time, the stories being extremely tender gut-shots. This is a marvelous short collection and I'm definitely going to check out more of Tanzer's work.
- "So Different Now" Again Tanzer makes me nostalgic for a past that isn't mine while putting me in a present I'm not sure I want to be in, yet greedily don't want to look away from. I can't believe I missed that this was out there, only realizing there was a second volume when "After the Flood" dropped recently. I grabbed this one as soon as I realized, and "After the Flood" as well. And these stories only whet my appetite more for "After the Flood." They make me feel raw, not in execution (because they are definitely well crafted) but in the emotional state evoked while reading. Tanzer has some breathtaking endings in some of these as well, heavy gut shots there was no way I could see coming but might fight someone if they suggested it could be any other way. Bottom line? Heavy stories. Heavy and great. I'm already itching to dig into "After the Flood," but I'm going to sit and savor these ones a few days first. They deserve it.
- "After the Flood" This is a marvelous finishing volume. It easily has as much emotional force as the other two volumes, but with something even more haunting about each of the stories. These stories could easily stand on their own, but it's so much more interesting to see the reflections and emanations between the stories of all three volumes as a whole. The best stuff in this volume though isn't something I can convey by description. It isn't that tangible, too subtle and delicate despite the simultaneous presence of that which is harsh and brutal in life. You really need to read it, and then you'll know.
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The New York Stories Three Volumes in One Collection edition by Ben Tanzer Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The New York Stories exceeds on the old maxim show, don’t tell. Here in Ben Tanzer’s modern Yankee Yoknapatawpha, the reader is a third wheel in the lives of the residents of the author’s fictionalized hometown, and is allowed to feel and experience first hand, rather than consume from an unnamed omniscience.
Beyond anecdotal, the New York Stories eschews linear storytelling in favor of juxtaposing memory and nightmare, moving in fits and starts, so that the reader, when the NY Stories is at its best, can honestly be left confounded if his or her memories are their own or one of Tanzer’s vignettes.
And in a brilliant turn, The NY Stories ends with a beginning, so that the reader is left both firmly aware that the town lives on somewhere “out there”, and that the reader can return whenever they feel the urge to visit.
Masterful modern storytelling from a writer in love with his characters, as much as he loves creating them.
I discovered Tanzer fairly early on, but not early enough to catch most of these stories when they were first published. The collector in me loves it when a press collects loads of early, often out-of-print work into a new book – and The New York Stories does just that, and does it gorgeously.
When read all together, the patchwork Tanzer weaves can finally be truly appreciated. It reminds me of Don Carpenter's The Class of '49 – which, if you know Carpenter, is high praise. Tanzer's characters weave in and out here, and the fictional town of Two Rivers very much becomes a character of its own. As for the people – they run the gamut from fully broken or insane to pensive and almost content. Their relationships are laid bare as fragile and tenuous arrangements, forever just a twist (or storm) from breaking apart.
And it's that edge, the intimacy of love as it is tested, that truly powers the collection. Page after page the book is fraught with the tension of potential heartbreak, and doubt, with infidelity, with mortality...making The New York Stories all the more immediate, approachable, and human.
The magic of Ben Tanzer is that he has the uncanny ability to lay bare the quirks, secrets, and personal shames that we all possess but are too guarded to discuss. Never has his raw talent for the modern human condition been more apparent than it is in The New York Stories.
All of these tales center around a fictional small town in upstate New York, the sort of unimpressive geographical black hole that you hate growing up in but don't ever seen quite able to escape. Maybe this collection speaks so loudly to me because I'm from a town just like Tanzer's fictional Two Rivers, New York, but I think the fundamental truth of the place and its people is rooted in all of us; we grow up thinking we know everything, and that everything is tragic, and we grow old learning that the tragedy is what we've made for ourselves.
Tanzer's characters struggle to get by in a world they've created for themselves, dealing with bad decisions, worse reactions, and the very specific sort of ennui that you find in low-prospect small towns. Love and sex and trust and dependence and addiction and obsession are explored frankly, bluntly, in Tanzer's signature bare-it-all style that makes you want to cry with relief that yes, it's true, someone else out there has the same soul-wrenching sadness and worry that you work to keep hidden in your life. Tanzer's greatest talent is his ability to make the personal universal.
He smartly builds his stories around a massive flood, a disaster born of "the storm of the century," and the flood is a striking metaphor for the self-destruction of the residents of Two Rivers.
Tanzer is an extraordinary talent. The New York Stories is a perfect entry point for new readers looking to explore his work.
I love that these stories are all finally out together and in print. I've been on this ride from the beginning, never questioning going all the way to the end. Some of these stories were my first experience with Tanzer, and I kept going back for more. It was great to watch this develop over the years, but it's best that everything is together now because as I read more and more of these stories as time went on I increasingly realized how much they were a part of a single big picture. I couldn't wait until it was complete to read the individual pieces, but now readers don't have to wait. It's all here and I picked up my own print copy so I'd have it all together. Do the same and get ready to change your life.
Here are my reviews from the individual pieces as they came out so you can see my reactions to each as I came across them and the developing whole while it was still in the process of developing
- "Repetition Patterns" This is my first experience with one of Tanzer's books, and I couldn't be more thrilled. I love how Tanzer manages to squeeze so much description in without really seeming like he's doing it. The prose is still tight and clean, but more is there than it seems and there are some real poetic phrasings here and there. I love the way the stories proceed as well. Tanzer manages to be both hard hitting and mournfully yearning at the same time, the stories being extremely tender gut-shots. This is a marvelous short collection and I'm definitely going to check out more of Tanzer's work.
- "So Different Now" Again Tanzer makes me nostalgic for a past that isn't mine while putting me in a present I'm not sure I want to be in, yet greedily don't want to look away from. I can't believe I missed that this was out there, only realizing there was a second volume when "After the Flood" dropped recently. I grabbed this one as soon as I realized, and "After the Flood" as well. And these stories only whet my appetite more for "After the Flood." They make me feel raw, not in execution (because they are definitely well crafted) but in the emotional state evoked while reading. Tanzer has some breathtaking endings in some of these as well, heavy gut shots there was no way I could see coming but might fight someone if they suggested it could be any other way. Bottom line? Heavy stories. Heavy and great. I'm already itching to dig into "After the Flood," but I'm going to sit and savor these ones a few days first. They deserve it.
- "After the Flood" This is a marvelous finishing volume. It easily has as much emotional force as the other two volumes, but with something even more haunting about each of the stories. These stories could easily stand on their own, but it's so much more interesting to see the reflections and emanations between the stories of all three volumes as a whole. The best stuff in this volume though isn't something I can convey by description. It isn't that tangible, too subtle and delicate despite the simultaneous presence of that which is harsh and brutal in life. You really need to read it, and then you'll know.
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