{"product_id":"the-isle-of-youth-stories-paperback","title":"The Isle of Youth: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Van Den Berg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Laura van den Berg is] a master of the short story form. Hers are deliciously unnerving, moving, and monstrous tales.\" --Karen Russell, author of \u003ci\u003eOrange World and other stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA smart, fun, noir-y treasure map . . . Van den Berg somehow packs a duffel bag of plot into carry-on-size stories. She also has the right kind of range: from brutal to moving to funny, South America to Paris to Antarctica, really great to freaking outstanding.\" --Kathryn Schulz\u003ci\u003e, New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe surreal, compulsively readable collection that established Laura van den Berg as a singular stylist, reissued for its tenth anniversary. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Isle of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e, Laura van den Berg's breakout second story collection, explores the lives of women who are mired in secrecy and deception. Ranging from the inscrutability of a marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience, these stories are linked by mystery and by women who are at once vulnerable and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless--who do what it takes to survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe characters in van den Berg's stories are lost in the mysteries of the self and the world at large, an experience that feels at once entirely singular and utterly familiar. Van den Berg writes with an elegant urgency and hypnotic rhythm, revealing the inner lives of marginalized young women grappling with the choices they've made and searching for the clues that will unlock their lives. The book that established the career of one of our most celebrated stylists, reissued now for its tenth anniversary, \u003ci\u003eThe Isle of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e is both magical and mystical, and a landmark collection in contemporary fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura van den Berg\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eWhat the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Isle of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI Hold a Wolf by the Ears\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named one the ten best fiction books of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003eFind Me \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Third Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and named a best book of 2018 by more than a dozen publications\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award and a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN\/O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and is a two-time finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.1 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52556903448883,"sku":"9781250339515","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/GiFbGSNi8L9781250339515.webp?v=1761169993","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-isle-of-youth-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}