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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories: ss

โœ Scribed by James Cochrane

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2009;2011
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
288 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0141959665

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โœฆ Synopsis

'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do.'Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the unique literature produced by this most exuberant of nations.

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