This book has a really cool cover by Hendrik Dorgathen. I didn’t like much else about the book. This was an impulse buy based on the cover. Let that be a lesson to me.
Each of the stories in this collection centers on some sort of family, and mostly from the point of view of one of the characters of each story. The stories are mostly something akin to inner dialog. In some, particularly Twilight of the Superheroes
, Eisenberg includes some sort of narrator-like pronouncements. All of it feels overwrought. The reviews I’ve read of it praise Eisenberg for her insight into human nature. I don’t see it.
One of my shorter reviews.
Title: Twilight of the superheroes
Author: Deborah Eisenberg
Cover artist: Hendrik Dorgathen
Imprint / publisher: Picador / Holtzbrinck
Format: Paperback
Length: 225 p.
Publication date: January 2007 (originally 2006)
ISBN-10: 0-312-42593-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42593-7
Subject: New York (N.Y.) — Social life and customs — Fiction
LC classification: PS3555.I793T87 2006
