Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories

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Invoking comparisons with Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Conner, Rick DeMarinis is considered by many to be one of America's finest exponents of the short story. A consumate craftsmen whose multi-layered tales are dark, sardonic, and often hilarious, his characters dazzle the reader with their manic optimism despite depression, boredom, illness and the usual postmodern afflictions of alcohol, drugs and TV...the equal of Pynchon, Dellilo and Calvino' - William Kettredge'

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This greatest-hits anthology serves as an ideal curbside roost from which to contemplate his tantalizing, if often brooding, artistry. Marc Smirnoff, New York Times Book Review


This career-synthesizing collection of stories lands [DeMarinis] on the shelf right next to Flannery O'Connor, another writer who shined a divine light on ordinary saints and sinners. Tom Grimes, The Texas Observer


The beauty of reading DeMarinis's work in bulk; by the end of the 32-story collection, even the weirdest notions seem plausible: Wimpy men with murder in their hearts, cruel slovenly women, and nasty little kids no longer induce winces. Instead, they seem genuine, faintly familiar, and never, ever boring. Seattle Times

Author Bio

Rick DeMarinis was the highly acclaimed author of ten novels, includingThe Year of the Zinc Penny, aNew York TimesNotable book, and six short story col-lections, includingApocalypse ThenandBorrowed Hearts. In 1990, he received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each year,Cutthroat- A Journal of the Arts, awards a short story prize in his name. Rick passed away on June 12, 2019.