How It Ended: New and Collected Stories

From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades.

“Extremely entertaining. . . elegant, subtle, shapely and reflective.” —The New York Times

Only seven of these stories have ever been collected in a book, but all twenty-six unveil and re-create the manic flux of our society. Whether set in New England, Los Angeles, New York or the South, they capture various stages of ...