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Roadside curiosities. Stories about American popular culture.

Originalbroschur. Condición: Sehr gut. 253 S. Very good copy. - A superhero walks into a neighborhood bar; a ghostly movie star is chased through a cornfield; a pop music diva contemplates the dead pheasant at her feet; a coloring-book dinosaur plays with fire and a cubicle worker battles a ring of Nigerian email scammers. In these stories and many more, lowbrow culture meets highbrow literature to poignant, profound and often hilarious effect. Here are twenty tales by some of the most celebrated authors in the United States, including Alice Elliot Dark, Robin Black, Lucy Corin, Anthony Doerr, Alan Heathcock, Caitlin Horrocks, Michael Martone and Lydia Millet. These award-winning writers and a dozen more of their contemporaries deliver a volume of stories that are raucous, heartfelt, intelligent and beautifully crafted. "Roadside Curiosities" marries literary fiction to American popular culture, giving us a new and powerful lens for examining modern life. This anthology was born in a classroom at the University of Leipzig, the result of a course in literary publishing offered under the auspices of the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature at American Studies Leipzig. / Content: SEXING THE PHEASANT Lydia Millet -- JUMPMAN VS. THE APE Matt Bell -- LIFE LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE EXTINCT Robin Black -- RUMM ROAD Alice Elliott Dark -- TWO MEN Mehrnoosh Mazarei -- THE GREAT BEYOND Alma Garcia -- SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA A MAN NAMED JASON BROCKMAN WEIGHS 470 POUNDS AND I AM GOING TO SAVE HIM Caitlin Horrocks -- THE NIGERIAN PRINCES Shannon Cain -- MEXICALI DEATH METAL Tiffany Poremba -- THE SERIOUS WRITER AND HER PUSSY Meg Pokrass -- RESURRECTION or: The Story Behind the Failure of the 2003 Radio Salsa 98.1 Semi-Annual Cuban and/or Puerto Rican Heritage Festival. Jennine Capó Crucet -- THINGS MY FATHER SAID Gary Jackson -- THE DIGITALLY ENHANCED IMAGE OF CARY GRANT APPEARS IN A CORNFIELD IN INDIANA Michael Marione -- FORT APACHE Alan Heathcock -- WAYS TO GET HOME Therese Schreiber -- GIRLS, AT PLAY Celeste Ng -- WHERE THE DOGS HAVE BUILT THEIR SECRET CITY Kara Waite -- DOMESTIC AIR QUALITY Kelcey Parker -- MADMEN Lucy Corin -- ORANGES Anthony Doerr. ISBN 9783865836335 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 554. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1232418

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