 Cover of first edition | |
| Author | Jeffrey Eugenides |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Jeffrey Eugenides Ari Fliakos Cynthia Nixon |
| Cover artist | Na Kim [1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | October 3, 2017 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 978-0-374-20306-1 |
| OCLC | 968639386 |
| 813/.54 | |
| LC Class | PS3555.U4 A6 2017 |
Fresh Complaint: Stories is a 2017 collection of short stories by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. [2]
It comprises ten stories, eight of which had previously been "published in magazines and literary journals between 1989 and 2013". [3] [4]
| Title | Originally published in |
|---|---|
| "Complainers" | |
| "Air Mail" | The Yale Review , October 1996 |
| "Baster" | The New Yorker , June 17, 1996 |
| "Early Music" | The New Yorker, October 10, 2005 |
| "Timeshare" | Conjunctions 28, Spring 1997 |
| "Find the Bad Guy" | The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 |
| "The Oracular Vulva" | The New Yorker, June 21, 1999 |
| "Capricious Gardens" | The Gettysburg Review , Winter 1989 |
| "Great Experiment" | The New Yorker, March 31, 2008 |
| "Fresh Complaint" | |
The audiobook is read by Jeffrey Eugenides, Ari Fliakos and Cynthia Nixon. [5]
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