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A River in Egypt

Faber Stories

David Means

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English
Faber & Faber
03 June 2019
Series: Faber Stories
In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis.

Cavanaugh has brought distractions - spasmodic action figures, malformed toy trucks - but they do little to alter the frustration of the sick child screaming, or to alleviate the anxiety of the time spent waiting for 'some exactitude in the form of a diagnosis'.

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Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 160mm,  Width: 111mm,  Spine: 3mm
Weight:   40g
ISBN:   9780571352494
ISBN 10:   0571352499
Series:   Faber Stories
Pages:   48
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Means's second collection of stories, Assorted Fire Events, earned the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and his third, The Secret Goldfish, was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. His fourth, The Spot, was selected as a 2010 Notable Book by the New York Times. His first novel, Hystopia, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent collection of short stories, Instructions for a Funeral was published by Faber in 2019. Means's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire among other publications. He lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.

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