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The Resource The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg

The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg

Label
The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Title
The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life
  • Since 1986, with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing "equisitely distilled stories" that "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life, " to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and her most recent collection--Twilight of the Superheroes (2006)
Related
Member of
Awards note
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2011.
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Eisenberg, Deborah
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3555.I793
LC item number
A6 2010
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Short stories, American
  • Short stories, American
  • Erzählung
  • Amerikanisches Englisch
Label
The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Under the 82nd Airborne
  • The Robbery
  • Presents
  • The Custodian
  • Holy Week
  • In the Station
  • The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor
  • Across the Lake
  • Someone to Talk To
  • Tlaloc's Paradise
  • Flotsam
  • Rosie Gets a Soul
  • Mermaids
  • All Around Atlantic
  • Twilight of the Superheroes
  • Some Other, Better Otto
  • Like It or Not
  • Window
  • Revenge of the Dinosaurs
  • The Flaw in the Design
  • What It Was LIke, Seeing Chris
  • Rafe's Coat
  • A Lesson in Traveling Light
  • Days
  • Transactions in a Foreign Currency
  • Broken Glass
  • A Cautionary Tale
Control code
ocn462907728
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Picador edition.
Extent
viii, 980 pages
Isbn
9780312429898
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2010002081
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Under the 82nd Airborne
  • The Robbery
  • Presents
  • The Custodian
  • Holy Week
  • In the Station
  • The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor
  • Across the Lake
  • Someone to Talk To
  • Tlaloc's Paradise
  • Flotsam
  • Rosie Gets a Soul
  • Mermaids
  • All Around Atlantic
  • Twilight of the Superheroes
  • Some Other, Better Otto
  • Like It or Not
  • Window
  • Revenge of the Dinosaurs
  • The Flaw in the Design
  • What It Was LIke, Seeing Chris
  • Rafe's Coat
  • A Lesson in Traveling Light
  • Days
  • Transactions in a Foreign Currency
  • Broken Glass
  • A Cautionary Tale
Control code
ocn462907728
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Picador edition.
Extent
viii, 980 pages
Isbn
9780312429898
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2010002081
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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