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American estrangement : stories / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 176 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393541236
  • 0393541231
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Contained works:
  • 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
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Audition -- Scenic route -- Last meal at Whole Foods -- A, S, D, F -- Fairground -- Metaphor of the falling cat -- A beginner's guide to estrangement.
Summary: "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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction SAYRAFIE SAID Available 33111010670970
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction SAYRAFIE SAID Available 33111010554802
Total holds: 0

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.

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