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Treisman, Deborah (editor)
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Fiction
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2010
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
β 239 KB
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20 Under 40-Stories from The New Yorker
β Scribed by Treisman, Deborah (editor)
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781429918404
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β¦ Synopsis
In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40"--the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the course of the summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume.
The range of voices is extraordinary. There is the lyrical realism of Nell Freudenberger, Philipp Meyer, C. E. Morgan, and Salvatore Scibona; the satirical comedy of Joshua Ferris and Gary Shteyngart; and the genre-bending tales of Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and T?a Obreht. David Bezmozgis and Dinaw Mengestu offer clear eyed portraits of immigration and identity; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ZZ Packer, and Wells Tower offer voice-driven, idiosyncratic narratives. Then there are the haunting sociopolitical stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarc?n, and Yiyun Li, and the metaphysical fantasies...
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