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Title:

Best of times, worst of times : contemporary American short stories from the new Gilded Age / edited by Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

ix, 357 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, American--21st century.
United States--Fiction.--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Martin, Wendy, 1940-
Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

The passenger / Marisa Silver. The 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 cemetary 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 -- A day / Charles Bukowski -- Scales / Louise Erdrich -- Something that needs nothing / Miranda July -- Equal opportunity / Walter Mosley -- The passenger / Marisa Silver.

ISBN:

081476147X (e-book)
9780814761472 (e-book)
0814796281 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814796283 (pb : alk. paper)
0814796273 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814796276 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)654816251

LCCN:

2010033746

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)