To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalking--that s what life can be like for the people in these eleven stories by Peter LaSalle, known to readers of leading literary magazines for his luminous prose...
Acclaim for HOCKEY SUR GLACE“HOCKEY SUR GLACE brims with affection for hockey -- more accurately, for skating and winter. It’s full of fond memories of searching for good ice as you tramp through the woods with your friends after school, of takin...
Pretty, twenty-year-old Mariposa has entered the U.S. from Honduras by way of Nuevo Laredo, without documentation. She now serves drinks and woos customers as a B-girl -- sort of a dime-a-dance arrangement -- in a shabby nightclub on the east side of...
What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today.In thi...
“LaSalle’s [stories] transcend their particulars to show people with dreams, dilemmas, and disappointments that will move any reader.” -- Jhumpa Lahiri, Harvard Review“Haunting and evocative. . . . LaSalle’s prose is lyrical, at times rhap...