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Best of times, worst of times : contemporary American short stories from the new Gilded Age /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.