| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 357 pages) |
| Contents |
Your mother and I / Dave Eggers -- Ballad of Duane Jaurez / Tom Franklin -- In the American society / Gish Jen -- Gogol / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy -- Smorgasbord / Tobias Wolfe -- How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie) / Junot Diaz -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Metamorphosis / John Updike -- Think / David Foster Wallace -- Expensive trips nowhere / Tom Bissell -- Near-extinct birds of the central Cordillera / Ben Fountain -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- COMMCOMM / George Saunders -- Mines / Susan Straight -- Skinless / Aimee Bender -- View from a headlock / Jonathan Lethem -- Brownies / Zz Packer -- Pie of the month / Jean Thompson -- Day / Charles Bukowski -- Scales / Louise Erdrich -- Something that needs nothing / Miranda July -- Equal opportunity / Walter Mosley -- Passenger / Marisa Silver |
| Summary |
A collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America's "New Gilded Age", a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- 21st century
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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American fiction
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Manners and customs
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Short stories, American
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Kurzgeschichte
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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| Subject |
United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
short stories.
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Short stories
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Fiction
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Short stories.
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Nouvelles.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, Wendy, 1940- editor.
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Tichi, Cecelia, 1942- editor.
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| LC no. |
2010033746 |
| ISBN |
9780814763001 |
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0814763006 |
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