Assorted Fire Events

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 165, [1]. Quarter-bound grey cloth over black paper covered boards, lettered in silver to spine.

Winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Award for Fiction, the book was shortlisted for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award. The second collection of stories by the author of A Quick Kiss of Redemption (1991), and The Secret Goldfish (2004), whose stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, and Harper's.

"Assorted Fire Events is one of the best American collections of the last ten years. Means's stories are harrowing and funny and full-blooded, consistently satisfying in their narrative twists, and lyrical in a way that makes most contemporary literary "lyricism" sound like greeting cards. This is food for the hungry." –Jonathan Franzen