The world to come stories
"These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned fl...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2017].
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Shepard, Jim, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The world to come : |b stories / |c Jim Shepard. |
| 250 | |a First Edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c [2017]. | |
| 300 | |a 258 pages ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a "This is a Borzoi book" -- copyright page | ||
| 590 | |a Genre sticker: Short stories. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Safety tips for living alone -- |t Wall-to-wall connseling -- |t HMS terror -- |t Creatan love song -- |t The world to come -- |t The ocean of air -- |t Positive train control -- |t Telemachuts -- |t Forcing joy on young people -- |t Intimacy. |
| 520 | |a "These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale"--Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Families |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Short stories. |2 lcgft | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Shepard, Jim, author. |t World to come |b First Edition. |d New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 |z 9781524731816 |
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