American estrangement : stories / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 176 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393541236
- 0393541231
- Short stories. Selections
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. Audition
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. Scenic route
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. Last meal at whole foods
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. A, S, D, F
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. Fairground
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. Metaphor of the falling cat
- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd. Beginner's guide to estrangement
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | SAYRAFIE SAID | Available | 33111010670970 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | SAYRAFIE SAID | Available | 33111010554802 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the Best American Short Stories--is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles--a son's fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction--even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic, political, and racial forces of American society.
Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy, American Estrangement is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh's reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers.
Audition -- Scenic route -- Last meal at Whole Foods -- A, S, D, F -- Fairground -- Metaphor of the falling cat -- A beginner's guide to estrangement.
"Stories that capture our times by "a young author who has already established himself as a unique American voice" (Elle). Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories-some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories-are set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles-a son's fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction-even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic and political forces of American society. Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy, American Estrangement is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh's reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers"-- Provided by publisher.