The Man Who Loved Levittown /
This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. & In Wetherell's stories a suburban retiree's assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded sold...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
1985.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. & In Wetherell's stories a suburban retiree's assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during World War II, a tennis-mad bachelor plays an interior game as real to him as an actual match, and a black drifter converts an Asian couple to his bleak vision of American life and finds strange kinship with them. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (145 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780822978855 |