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Praise and Accolades for Wifeshopping
Stories by Steven Wingate
Winner of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in Fiction
from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
A Mariner Original from Houghton Mifflin Books (July 1, 2008)
Stories by Steven Wingate
Winner of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in Fiction
from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
A Mariner Original from Houghton Mifflin Books (July 1, 2008)
"Strongly imagined,often deeply moving fiction from a gifted writer who seems to know us better than we know ourselves."
Kirkus Reviews
"Wingate is a fine storyteller and a writer capable of exciting flights of language.... It makes me hope we'll see more books from him."
Steve Almond, Los Angeles Times
"A remarkably focused collection. The inhabitants of Wifeshopping push on, mostly unbeaten, mostly unbowed, still wanting to do the right thing, still confounded by their unfathomable hearts."
The Short Review
"Wingate's language is carefully crafted yet doesn't call attention to itself... Characters are well drawn, sometimes dysfunctional, usually sympathetic, always interesting."
About.com
"Wingate’s pieces are remarkably varied in tone, plot and attitude. Each story is a world unto itself. In the end, you believe there is hope for many of these characters despite their painful blunders."
Boulder Weekly
"Wingate has indeed written a winner: Wifeshopping is a bright new collection from a rising new writer."
Boulder Daily Camera
"There’s not a dud in the bunch; the entire collection is carried by Wingate's precise, yet natural diction and distinctive, winning voice."
NewWest.net
"Brilliantly rendered and achingly true and full of the yearning for connection to the Other that defines our humanity. This is a splendid debut by an important new voice in American fiction."
Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"What makes these studies in discovery and disillusionment so startling and affecting is the energy of Steven Wingate's language, and the agency of his characters . . . . The stories in Wifeshopping expand with subsequent readings; they do not end on the page, but continue in a reader's mind."
Amy Hempel, author of The Dog of the Marriage and Tumble Home
"God love Steven Wingate's men (and women), losers with cracked hearts and big dreams. Wifeshopping is a collection of stories that traffics in the lies, many and necessary, we tell ourselves about woe and weal, and we're a better people for knowing the difference."
Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once
"Could be the exact masculine counterpart to Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness. . . You willingly go to that place again where, fascinated, you watch helplessly as yet another man takes a lonely walk through his own imperfect heart."
Janis Hallowell, author of She Was
Kirkus Reviews
"Wingate is a fine storyteller and a writer capable of exciting flights of language.... It makes me hope we'll see more books from him."
Steve Almond, Los Angeles Times
"A remarkably focused collection. The inhabitants of Wifeshopping push on, mostly unbeaten, mostly unbowed, still wanting to do the right thing, still confounded by their unfathomable hearts."
The Short Review
"Wingate's language is carefully crafted yet doesn't call attention to itself... Characters are well drawn, sometimes dysfunctional, usually sympathetic, always interesting."
About.com
"Wingate’s pieces are remarkably varied in tone, plot and attitude. Each story is a world unto itself. In the end, you believe there is hope for many of these characters despite their painful blunders."
Boulder Weekly
"Wingate has indeed written a winner: Wifeshopping is a bright new collection from a rising new writer."
Boulder Daily Camera
"There’s not a dud in the bunch; the entire collection is carried by Wingate's precise, yet natural diction and distinctive, winning voice."
NewWest.net
"Brilliantly rendered and achingly true and full of the yearning for connection to the Other that defines our humanity. This is a splendid debut by an important new voice in American fiction."
Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"What makes these studies in discovery and disillusionment so startling and affecting is the energy of Steven Wingate's language, and the agency of his characters . . . . The stories in Wifeshopping expand with subsequent readings; they do not end on the page, but continue in a reader's mind."
Amy Hempel, author of The Dog of the Marriage and Tumble Home
"God love Steven Wingate's men (and women), losers with cracked hearts and big dreams. Wifeshopping is a collection of stories that traffics in the lies, many and necessary, we tell ourselves about woe and weal, and we're a better people for knowing the difference."
Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once
"Could be the exact masculine counterpart to Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness. . . You willingly go to that place again where, fascinated, you watch helplessly as yet another man takes a lonely walk through his own imperfect heart."
Janis Hallowell, author of She Was