{"product_id":"night-train-new-and-selected-stories-9780316449342","title":"Night Train: New and Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by \"virtuoso of the short story\" (Esquire) and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones.  This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Joness stories are full of high-octane  prose-drunk entertainment. His characters are grifters and drifters  rogues and neer-do-wells  would-be do-gooders whose human frailties usually get the better of them.  Some are lovable  others are not  but each has an indelible and irresistible voice. They include Vietnam soldiers  amateur boxers  devoted doctors  strung-out advertising writers  pill poppers and veterans of the psych ward  and an unforgettable adolescent DJ radio host  among others.  The stories here are excursions into a unique world that veers between abject desperation and fleeting transcendence. Perhaps no other writer in recent memory could encapsulate in such short spaces the profound and the devastating  the poignant and the hallucinatory  with such an exquisite balance of darkness and light. Joness fiction reveals again and again the resilience and grace of characters who refuse to succumb. In stories that can at once delight us with their wicked humor and sting us with their affecting pathos  Night Train perfectly captures the essence of this iconic American master  showcasing in a single collection the breadth of power of his inimitable fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789651697717,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316449342","price":29.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316449342.jpg?v=1784694164","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/night-train-new-and-selected-stories-9780316449342","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}