Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age by Martin, Wendy
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age by Martin, Wendy

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age

Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as "The New Gilded Age," a phrase...
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Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age by Martin, Wendy

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age

€64,38
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age by Martin, Wendy

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age

€64,38
Author: Wendy Martin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as "The New Gilded Age," a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface. Identifying some of the sparkling moments of humanity interwoven between the moments of crisis, Best of Times, Worst of Times features short stories by such renowned writers as Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tobias Wolff, and many others, whose distinctive authorial voices lend urgency and a sense of heightened awareness to the modern moment. Commenting on and making sense of what is going on in America today, fractured as it is by two ongoing wars, the aftermath of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, these stories speak to some of the most germane issues confronting America today, from race relations, immigration, and social class to gender issues, Iraq, and imperialism. These expertly culled, emotionally powerful stories provide the perfect mirror with which to examine the real state of the union.



Author: Wendy Martin
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 04/04/2011
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.05w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780814796283


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2011 pg. 20
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2011

About the Author
Wendy Martin (Editor)
Wendy Martin is Vice-Provost and George and Ronya Kozmetsky Professor of Transdisciplinary Studies and Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson (2007), We Are The Stories We Tell (1990), More Stories We Tell (2004), and The Art of the Short Story (2006).

Cecelia Tichi (Editor)
Cecelia Tichi is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of nine books, including Jazz Age Cocktails (NYU Press, 2021), Gilded Age Cocktails (NYU Press, 2021), What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age (NYU Press, 2018) and Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (UNC Press, 2011).


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