**"Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to _The Daily Beast,_ Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery.** These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of hi
The World to Come: Stories
โ Scribed by Shepard, Jim
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1524731811
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale"--
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