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This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "B...

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Main Author: Eugenides, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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Poets > Fiction.
Envy > Fiction.
Embezzlement > Fiction.
College freshmen > Fiction.
Short stories.
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Summary:This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
Physical Description:285 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780374203061
0374203067
Author Notes:Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 8, 1960. He received a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. in English and creative writing from Stanford University in 1986. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to in 1993 and was made into a feature film. His other works include Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Marriage Plot. He is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.

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