Screen LibraryThe best American short stories 2016 /
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The best American series,
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| Summary: |
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages." |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 311 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780544582897 (paperback) : 0544582896 (paperback) 9780544582750 (hardback) 0544582756 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PS659 |
| CLC: | I710.45 |
| Call Number: | I710.45/B561-1/2016 |
| Contents: |
Apollo / Ravalushan / Garments / Wonders of the shore / The bears / The great silence / The flower / The Letician Age / For the god of love, for the love of god / The suitcase / Treasure state / Pat + Sam / Cold little bird / The politics of the quotidian / Bridge / The prospectors / |