The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter

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EAN: 9780224089821
Format: Trade Paperback
Published: 1 Apr 2010

Synopsis

Andrew Porter's stories offer a stunningly astute vision of contemporary American suburbia, full of tension, heartbreak and emotional complexity - the work of an important new voice.

These ten stories take us across the country - from rural Pennsylvania to suburban Connecticut - and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. A childless couple, craving the affection of an exchange student, fail to set set the boundaries that would keep him safe. And in the title story, a college student looking for her soul mate confronts an impossible choice.

What the critics say

Andrew Porter’s fiction is thoughtful, lucid and highly controlled . . . He has the kind of voice one can accept as universal - honest and grave, with transparency as its adornment
- Marilynne Robinson

An exquisite collection. . . [With] hard-won grit and imagination to spare
- Time Out New York

A true master of the short story, a writer of honesty and plainspoken poetry who knows the human soul in all its light and shadow and harnesses every sentence to the purpose of revealing it
- Kevin Brockmeier

Luminous . . . Porter’s writing [is] in direct dialogue with the work of John Cheever and Raymond Carver . . . A memorable debut that honors the history of the short story form while blazing a new trajectory all its own
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Author

Andrew Porter

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Andrew Porter has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International
Short Story Award. His work has appeared in One Story, The Threepenny Review, and on NPR’s
Selected Shorts. He teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.