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Fresh Complaint: Stories
Cover of first edition
AuthorJeffrey Eugenides
Audio read byJeffrey Eugenides
Ari Fliakos
Cynthia Nixon
Cover artistNa Kim[1]
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
October 3, 2017
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages304
ISBN978-0-374-20306-1
OCLC968639386
813/.54
LC ClassPS3555.U4 A6 2017

Fresh Complaint: Stories is a 2017 collection of short stories by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides.[2]

Contents

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It comprises ten stories, eight of which had previously been "published in magazines and literary journals between 1989 and 2013".[3][4]

Title Originally published in
"Complainers"
"Air Mail" The Yale Review, October 1996
"Baster" The New Yorker, June 17, 1996
"Early Music" The New Yorker, October 10, 2005
"Timeshare" Conjunctions 28, Spring 1997
"Find the Bad Guy" The New Yorker, November 18, 2013
"The Oracular Vulva" The New Yorker, June 21, 1999
"Capricious Gardens" The Gettysburg Review, Winter 1989
"Great Experiment" The New Yorker, March 31, 2008
"Fresh Complaint"

Audiobook

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The audiobook is read by Jeffrey Eugenides, Ari Fliakos and Cynthia Nixon.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "When Your Favorite Writer Does Not Like Your Initial Cover Designs". September 11, 2017.
  2. ^ Dwight Garner (October 3, 2017). "Jeffrey Eugenides's Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life's Grind". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  3. ^ Power, Chris (October 5, 2017). "Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides review – America's mania for money". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  4. ^ Jeffrey Eugenides (October 3, 2017). Fresh Complaint: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-374-71738-4.
  5. ^ "Fresh Complaint | Jeffrey Eugenides". US Macmillan.