Borrowed Hearts New and Selected Stories

Rick DeMarinis has been compared to Raymond Carver, James Welch, Jim Harrison, and Flannery O'Connor, to name a few; to read him is to enter a world that is original, profound, and darkly comic, constituting an important page in the history of 20th-century American writing. Borrowed Hearts is the first collection of work from DeMarinis's entire short-story writing career. Here are eleven new stories alongside twenty-one chosen by the author from his three previous, highly acclaimed collections: Under Wheat (1986), the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction; The Coming of the Free World, a New York Times Notable Book (1988); and The Voice of America (1991).

RICK DEMARINIS is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction. His stories have appeared in Harper's, Antaeus, Story, Epoch, and many others. In 1990 he received a Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.