Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately
recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank
Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that same
wry, inventive, knife-edged humor that has come to characterize his
distinctive style. With an adroit use of language and a keen eye for the
quirky, offbeat side of human nature, Dixon creates a world as viewed
through a fish-eye lens-slightly distorted and off-center, yet
recognizable and often familiar.
14 Stories is part comedy, part tragedy, part social comment and part
spoof. But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of
all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable
talent at its best.