Under the 82nd Airborne (1992) Of all the writers who invaded the chic Manhattan territory populated by earnestly jaded middle-class bohemians during the '80s, Deborah Eisenberg was the thorniest. In… Fiction Short Stories Farrar, Straus & Giroux
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Writer: Deborah Eisenberg; Genres: Fiction, Short Stories; Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Of all the writers who invaded the chic Manhattan territory populated by earnestly jaded middle-class bohemians during the '80s, Deborah Eisenberg was the thorniest. In the collection of stories that comprise Under the 82nd Airborne, she darts in and out of New York, gathering her baffled, writhing, neatly impaled specimens. B+

Originally posted Feb 19, 1993 Published in issue #158 Feb 19, 1993 Order article reprints