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I. S T E P H E N   D I X O N - - - - Clothbound cover is die-cut to reveal original drawing by graphic novelist Daniel Clowes ISBN: 0-9719047-0-7   $18 Carton Quantity: 18 The long-awaited novel by Stephen Dixon, I. is a searingly powerful and seemingly autobiographical novel that explores in harrowing detail the limitations of memory and the sordid reality of degenerative disease. Stephen Dixon is the author of Frog, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1991 and the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award in 1992, and Interstate, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1995. Since 1963, over 350 of Dixon's stories have appeared in such publications as Harper's, Playboy, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, and Partisan Review. Dixon has received two NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship for fiction, an American Academy-Institute of Arts & Letters Award in Literature, three O. Henry prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and The Paris Review's John Train Humor Prize. "Dixon's stories are closer to Beckett than to Chekhov; brilliantly skilled in dialogue, they mirror the tight shadow world of the ordinary city dweller trying desperately to define himself." - The New York Times Book Review "Highly personal, in a few cases embarrassingly intimate, I. is artfully artless, honest and true." - The Washington Post "In his funny, penetrating...new novel, Stephen Dixon has finally dared to tell the truth." - San Francisco Chronicle