Before & After Stories from New York

"BEFORE AND AFTER is a stirring and impressive catalog of voices...the sincerity and authenticity of Beller's selections are in part the result of their shirking the kind of 'literary' writing generally found in such short pieces of prose. There is no mistaking, in other words, that language is here at the service of the subject; the book is so saturated with vivid humanity, with nightmarish specificity, with the undeniable realities of ashes, concrete, smoke, paper, and tears, that even the weaker pieces raise the questions that will continue to haunt us for some time."Beller, Thomas is the author of 'Before & After Stories from New York' with ISBN 9780393323535 and ISBN 0393323536.