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Sam the Cat

(2000)
And Other Stories
A collection of stories by

 
 
Awards
2002 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

The New Yorker named Matt Klam one of the 20 best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need.

Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded room who, upon closer inspection, turns out to be not quite what he expected; a self-doubting young professional attends the posh wedding of his successful friend and delivers a disastrous toast; the chicken one man's girlfriend is preparing for dinner comes to embody the darkly corrosive element in their relationship. These stories crackle with humor, intelligence and style and add up to an outrageously funny, unforgettable debut.


Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"His stories... pierce and leap, are always bitingly funny, and are so, so alive... Klam is telling the truth while almost no one else is." - Dave Eggers


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