{"product_id":"the-soho-press-book-of-80s-short-fiction","title":"The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction  editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history  when Ronald Reagan was president  the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion  and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s.  Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose fragility had been freshly emphasized by the AIDS epidemic  the 34 works gathered here are individually vivid  but taken as a body of work  they challenge the prevailing notion of the 80s as a time of aesthetic as well as financial maximalism. Formally inventive yet tightly controlled  they offer a more expansive  inclusive view of the eras literary accomplishments.  The anthology blends early stories from writers like Denis Johnson  Jamaica Kincaid  Mary Gaitskill  and Raymond Carver  which have gone on to become part of the American canon  with remarkable and often transgressive work from some of the most celebrated writers of the underground  including Dennis Cooper  Eileen Myles  Lynne Tillman  and Gary Indiana. Peck has also included powerful work by writers such as Gil Cuadros  Essex Hemphill  and Sam DAllesandro  whose untimely deaths from AIDS ended their careers almost before they had begun. Almost a third of the stories are out of print and unavailable elsewhere.  The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction is a daring reappraisal of a decade that is increasingly central to our culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44968146763829,"sku":"ByrdShop_1616955465","price":59.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781616955465.jpg?v=1770647593","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-soho-press-book-of-80s-short-fiction","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}