Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently thatthrough his McSweeneys magazine and its many imitators the form is once againin the... » 

Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently thatthrough his McSweeneys magazine and its many imitators the form is once againin the ascendancy. Yet while celebrating the work of others Eggers has alsoproved time and again that he himself is one of the modern masters of the form.This unmissable collection is Eggerss first and showcases his talents in avariety of stories that are shortshort shortlong and every length inbetween and in stories that are dark funny inspiring daring and endlesslyinventive including the acclaimed Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly. Inshort these stories will make you appreciate that Dave Eggers and the shortstory were made for each other and in turn for you. «