Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Short Stories

ABOUT THE BOOK:

John Sayles’s stories, like his movies, are panoramic in scope and richly textured. His beautifully drawn characters are often down on their luck, struggling to make ends meet in circumstances where the past has a powerful influence on the present.

Dillinger in Hollywood showcases Sayles’s uncanny ear for language, his skill at crafting character, humor and atmosphere, and his ability, as Barbara Kingsolver has written, “to pull apart our most cherished myths and icons and see what they’re really made of.”

Dillinger in Hollywood includes the short story “I-80 Nebraska,” for which Sayles was awarded an O. Henry Award.

PRAISE:

“Sayles has a winning way with the short story.”

New York Times

“In this engaging collection, his first in 25 years, he reminds us of his skill in shorter forms. ... Humor leavens the social conscience in many of these tales, and Sayles’s exceptional dialogue is reason enough to appreciate this collection. ”

Publishers Weekly

“Filmmaker Sayles ... is also a highly imaginative short story writer with a sure ear for dialogue, a keen eye for group dynamics, a flair for quickly establishing intriguing mise-en-scènes, and the ability to animate a great spectrum of flinty characters ... Sayles expresses his compassion and concern for those who struggle with poverty and prejudice, seeking both to provoke and entertain.”

Booklist

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

John Sayles is the screenwriter and director of Matewan; Lone Star; The Secret of Roan Inish; Eight Men Out; Return of the Secaucus Seven; Baby, It’s You; The Brother from Another Planet; Silver City; Sunshine State; and Passion Fish, among other films. The latter three screenplays have been published as Silver City and other Screenplays. Sayles has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and has also written the short story collection The Anarchists’ Convention, and several novels, including Los Gusanos, Pride of the Bimbos, and Union Dues, which was nominated for a National Book Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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