Here Comes Another Lesson: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439181997)

STEPHEN O'CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In Here Comes Another Lesson, O'Connor, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the vividly realistic, these brilliant stories offer tender portraits of idealists who cannot live according to their own ideals and of lovers baffled by the realities of love.

The story lines are unforgettable: A son is followed home from work by his dead father. God instructs a professor of atheism to disseminate updated Commandments. The Minotaur is awakened to his own humanity by the computer-game-playing "new girl" who has been brought to him for supper. A recently returned veteran longs for the utterly ordinary life he led as a husband and father before being sent to Iraq. An ornithologist, forewarned by a cormorant of the exact minute of his death, struggles to remain alert to beauty and joy.

As playful as it is lyrical, Here Comes Another Lesson celebrates human hopefulness and laments a sane and gentle world that cannot exist.

Author: Stephen O'Connor
ISBN-10: 1439181993
ISBN-13: 9781439181997
Publisher: Free Press
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/24/2010 pg. 33
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2010
Booklist 07/01/2010 pg. 30