End of I - Hardcover

The surprise is not only how funny Dixon can be but also how unutterably sad... [Dixon] takes a reader's heart and just plain dropkicks it.A" -San Francisco Chronicle His circular, self-aware prose can be entrancing.A" -New York Times Book Review Stephen Dixon is one of the great secret masters. -Jonathan Lethem "You have to go into a Dixon book the way you'd go into a game of strip poker: ready to end up naked. He gives it to you straight, and means every word. He is the least pretentious living writer." -J. Robert Lennon

Three years ago McSweeney's published Stephen Dixon's acclaimed I., "amoving and oddly funny book" (The New Yorker). Now, the two-time NationalBook Award nominee revisits that book's intimate territory, tightening his unflinching focus even as he widens the scope. Dixon is still a master stylist, and the narrator's tense, breakneck reflections on loss in all contexts are imbued with remarkable urgency and warmth.