<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Puchner, Eric]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Puchner, Eric]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mississauga/rss/search?query=Puchner%2C%20Eric&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:19:50 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Dream State]]></title><description><![CDATA["PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, Pushcart Prize winner, and Best American Stories contributor, Eric Puchner returns with an ambitious and deeply moving novel set against the backdrop of the American West that follows three lifelong friends and the betrayal at the center of their entwined fates. Cece and Charlie are in love and a few weeks away from their summer wedding. But when Cece meets Charlie's best friend from college, Garrett, her long-held expectations for her future begin to crumble. As Garrett's gruff mask slips, Cece begins to anticipate the big day with dread as her feelings for Garrett become impossible to bury. And as she decides to follow her instincts, ditching her groom for his best man, she will alter the three of their lives forever, the events of that July reverberating through marriage, parenthood, and, in the end, across generations. Years later, Cece's daughter, Lana, and Charlie's son, Jasper, meet and become fast friends, finding themselves reunited again and again throughout their adolescence. Soon enough, they find themselves enacting their parents' mistakes, falling victim to duplicity and heartbreak, with age and mortality looming. With Montana's once-warm summers growing untenably hot, and the nearby lake all but drying up, obscured only by the ceaseless smoke of wildfires, Garrett's career as a wildlife researcher feels increasingly futile. As he watches Cece begin to lose herself, Charlie wonders whether he will ever find stability, especially with a son failing to adjust to the demands of adulthood. With delicacy, precision, and enormous heart, Dream State is at once a study of the unholy catastrophe of marriage, and a tender ode to the beauty of impermanence"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C741744</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C741744</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Puchner, Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/741744220</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385550666/MC.GIF&amp;client=misslp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream State]]></title><description><![CDATA["Cece and Charlie are in love and a few weeks away from their summer wedding. But when Cece meets Charlie's best friend from college, Garrett, her long-held expectations for her future begin to crumble. As Garrett's gruff mask slips, Cece begins to anticipate the big day with dread as her feelings for Garrett become impossible to bury.And as she decides to follow her instincts, ditching her groom for his best man, she will alter the three of their lives forever, the events of that July reverberating through marriage, parenthood, and, in the end, across generations"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C742036</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C742036</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Puchner, Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/742036220</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217161836/MC.GIF&amp;client=misslp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weißes Licht (Ungekürzt)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Garret lebt zurückgezogen in der ländlichen Idylle Montanas, er arbeitet als Gepäckabfertiger am Flughafen und kümmert sich um seinen kranken Vater. Als er Cece kennenlernt, spürt er zum ersten Mal seit Jahren wieder Lust auf das Leben. Es gibt nur ein Problem: Sie ist die Verlobte seines besten Freundes. Schon bald müssen sie eine Entscheidung treffen, die ihrer aller Leben unwiderruflich verändern wird: ihre Beziehungen, ihre Freundschaften, und schließlich die folgende Generation. Ein meisterhafter Roman in der Tradition großer amerikanischer Erzähler darüber, wie unsere Wurzeln uns für immer beeinflussen, selbst wenn die Welt auseinanderfällt.]]></description><link>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C18741356</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C18741356</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[ger]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Puchner, Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/18741356981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>ger</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9783742436153/MC.GIF&amp;client=misslp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Model Home]]></title><link>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C213328</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C213328</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Puchner, Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/213328220</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780743270496/MC.GIF&amp;client=misslp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music Through the Floor]]></title><description><![CDATA[With Music Through the Floor, Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting to navigate mainstream America. 
 
Lost, teetering on the edge of normalcy, Puchner's characters seek to define themselves in a frequently absurd and hostile world -- a world that threatens to make outcasts of us all. Caught up in loneliness or solitude, they can't quite hear the music of their own lives. 
 
In "Children of God," a young loner becomes the caretaker and companion for two mentally retarded men, seeking solace in their outsider status. "Essay #3: Leda and the Swan" is told in the forlorn, be-nighted, and tragically funny voice of a high school girl who longs more than anything to be loved. In "Mission," an idealistic ESL teacher is faced with the inscrutable wrath of one of his immigrant students. And in the unsettling "Child's Play," Puchner explores the price of nonconformity by following a pack of boys wreaking havoc on Halloween. 
 
Writing from an impressive range of perspectives -- men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists -- Puchner deftly exposes the dark, ten-der undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a depersonalized world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, and transcendent -- sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these nine stories mark the arrival of a brilliant young writer and one of our most promising literary voices.]]></description><link>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12566060</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12566060</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Puchner, Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12566060981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Stories</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416559764/MC.GIF&amp;client=misslp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best American Short Stories 2017]]></title><description><![CDATA[Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.]]></description><link>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C482501</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S220C482501</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mississauga.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/482501220</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780544582767/MC.GIF&amp;client=misslp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>