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Books by Christine Schutt
  | | Pure Hollywood(1st Edition) And Other Stories by Christine Schutt Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2018 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2761-7, ISBN: 0-8021-2761-4 "“Pure Hollywood is pure gold.”―Ottessa MoshfeghThe sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, National Book Award finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt. In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion to a ..." |
 | | All Souls(1st Edition) by Christine Schutt Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 2009 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603338-1, ISBN: 0-15-603338-0 "In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the sick girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: The silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will ..." |
 | | Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2179-0, ISBN: 0-8021-2179-9 "Prosperous Friends proves Schutt to be one of the finest stylists alive.”Los Angeles Review of BooksArtful . . . Astonishing . . . Piercingly real . . . The poetic concision and allusiveness of [Schutt’s] prose give the story more heft than a mere two-hundred pages would suggest. . . . Her sentences never waste a phrase or even a word. In these finely cut scenes . . . Schutt deals killing blows with such short, precise movements that ..." |
 | | Florida(1st Edition) by Christine Schutt Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2003 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5150-5, ISBN: 0-8101-5150-2 "Finalist for the 2004 National Book Award Florida is the portrait of the artist as a young woman, an orphan's story full of loss and wonder, a familiar tale told in original language. Alice Fivey, fatherless at age seven, is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her love-wearied mother loses custody of her and submits to the sanitarium and years of psychiatric care. A namesake daughter locked in the orphan's move-around life ..." |
 | | Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2018 by And Other Stories ISBN-13: 978-1-911508-24-3, ISBN: 1-911508-24-5 "With Pure Hollywood, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career. In tales of rare wit, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of longing and danger. An alcoholic actress takes her children to live in 'a rusted box on stilts' in the desert. In an exclusive island resort, a young family's holiday has terrible consequences. A newly-wed couple who, while still 'newly eve ..." |
 | | Prosperous Friends(1st Edition) by Christine Schutt Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2038-0, ISBN: 0-8021-2038-5 "Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful,” Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty. In her new novel, Schutt delivers a pitch-perfect, timeless and original work on the spectacle of love.Prosperous Friends follows the evolution of a young couple’s marriage as it is challenged by the quandaries of longing and sexual self-disc ..." |
 | | All Souls(1st Edition) by Christine Schutt Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101449-1, ISBN: 0-15-101449-3 "In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the sick girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: The silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will ..." |
 | | Florida(Reprint) by Christine Schutt Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603054-0, ISBN: 0-15-603054-3 "Finalist for the National Book Award: Christine Schutt’s masterful novel—hailed by John Ashbery as “an amazing achievement”—about a remarkable little girl who comes of age, adrift, in the care of a rotating cast of indifferent relativesAlice Fivey is seven years old when her father dies, and ten when her mentally fragile mother is institutionalized. So begins the “sleepover life” for Alice. Shuttled among the homes of wealthy relatives, ..." |
 | | Pets by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ann Beattie, Raegan Bird, Blake Butler, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Annie Dewitt, Chelsea Hodson, Yuka Igarashi, Kristen Iskandrian, Mark Leidner, Tao Lin, Scott Mcclanahan, Sarah Manguso, Michael W. Clune, David Nutt, Precious Okoyomon, Sam Pink, Nicolette Polek, Kathryn Scanlan, Christine Schutt, Mallory Whitten, Jordan Castro, Ryan C. Choi Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Tyrant Books ISBN-13: 978-1-73353-599-1, ISBN: 1-73353-599-3 "This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. From legends like Ann Beattie and Christine Schutt to cult figures like Scott McClanahan and Tao Lin, this anthology collects writing from some of today’s ..." |
 | | A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer(1st Edition) by Christine Schutt Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2006 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603066-3, ISBN: 0-15-603066-7 "With prose that is at once sensual and spare, dreamlike and deliberate, Christine Schutt gives voice in this collection to what most keep hidden. Many of the stories take place in the home, where what is behind the thin domestic barriers of doors tends toward violence, unseemly sexual encounters, and mental anguish. Schutt opens these doors in sudden, bold moments and exposes the unsettling intimacy of the rooms and corridors of our inn ..." |
 | | A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer(1st Edition) Stories by Christine Schutt Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2005 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5153-6, ISBN: 0-8101-5153-7 "The title of Christine Schutt's second collection strikes the theme of swiftly passing time that runs through each of the stories. In "The Life of the Palm and the Breast" a woman watches her half-grown children running through the house and wonders: Whose boys are these? Whose life is this? The title story tells of a grandfather who has lived long enough to see his daughter's struggles echoed in his granddaughter and how her unhappines ..." |
 | | Nightwork(1st Edition) Stories by Christine Schutt Hardcover, 129 Pages, Published 1996 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-40451-4, ISBN: 0-679-40451-1 "In this, her first collection of stories, Christine Schutt gives exquisite and provocative form to feelings and memories. Nightwork is a masterful dreamwork, revealing our lives with the startling clarity we long for.A young woman remembers, after a forbidden embrace, the exact quality of her father's skin, "pitted and stubbled under all that color." A girl recalls the strange kingdom that was her grandfather's estate, a place she came ..." |
 | | Florida (CD-Audio) by Christine Schutt Published 2017 by Audible Studios On Brilliance, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5366-4066-3, ISBN: 1-5366-4066-2 |
 | | The Literary Review(1st Edition) The Tides by Kate Brody, Molly Jean Reid, John Kinsella, H.E. Francis, Eric Paul, Clay Matthews, Bethany Goch, Diane Mehta, Jesse Nathan, Matt Rasmussen, Christine Schutt, Daniel Wolff, Scott Withiam, Kim Kyung Ju, Ana Blandiana, Amy Meng, Ferreira Gullar, Minna Proctor, Renee Ashley, Craig Morgan Teicher, Jena Salon Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by Fairleigh Dickinson University ISBN-13: 978-0-9860703-1-0, ISBN: 0-9860703-1-9 "America's premiere literary quarterly explores all that is cyclical, lunar, and aquatic. There are poems about children at dinner parties, Brooklyn sludge, television, and fast food, amusement parks, washed up rock stars, and space debris. Read curiously. Read bravely. Read more." |
 | | All Souls(Reprint) by Christine Schutt Library, 240 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4395-9862-7, ISBN: 1-4395-9862-2 "In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the sick girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: The silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will ..." |
 | | Nightwork(1st Edition) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Christine Schutt Paperback, 129 Pages, Published 2000 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-239-7, ISBN: 1-56478-239-5 "In this, her first collection of stories, Christine Schutt gives exquisite and provocative form to feelings and memories. "Nightwork" is a masterful dreamwork, revealing with startling clarity the dark and unsettling sexuality that lies just beneath the surface of the mundane." |
 | | Pets An Anthology by Jordan Castro, Ann Beattie, Tao Lin, Sarah Manguso, Scott Mcclanahan, Blake Butler, Michael W. Clun, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Chelsea Martin, Chelsea Hodson, Mark Leidner, Megan Boyle, Gabby Bess, Annie Dewitt, Precious Okoyomon, Nicolette Polek, Raegan Bird, Mallory Whitten, Sam Pink, Christine Schutt, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kathryn Scanlan Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Soft Skull Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-564-4, ISBN: 1-59376-564-9 "This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. Edited by Jordan Castro with contributions by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ann Beattie, Raegan Bird, Blake Butler, CAConrad, Ryan C. K. Choi, Michael W. Clune, Pa ..." |
 | | Pure Hollywood And Other Stories by Christine Schutt Published 2018 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-6565-7, ISBN: 0-8021-6565-6 "Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew." |
 | | A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer Stories by Christine Schutt 157 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-3847-7, ISBN: 1-4804-3847-2 "Our mother is crying, “I want to go out in the Shepherd with Daddy and see the races.” Our mother, in her room, goes on and on about it, how she isn't good with numbers but she will try. She wants to play. Mother wants to go out again, please. She wants to try. “I'll be good, I'll be good, I'll be good. I want to get out of this shit- hole place. Jesus!” And his name, the way she says it, comes out sorrowful and red. Then Agnes is n ..." |
 | | Florida A Novel by Christine Schutt 156 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-3846-0, ISBN: 1-4804-3846-4 "Here at Arlette's, at Nonna's, at Uncle Billy's, at Nonna's, no logic to the rotation, no meaning I could figure except to know the first house and the last at different ends of the lake. Uncle Billy's house was first—brick walk, cold wind, water, water ..." |
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