The Penguin Book of New American Voices

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'An altogether entrancing, refreshing, feisty collection' - Literary Revietv ' An excellent appraisal of the genre ... [Jay Mclnerney's] introduction prepares the reader for a continent celebrating its own diversity ... What of the 16 stories? ... somé are devastatingly good. Charles D'Ambrosio's "Her Real Name" touchingly reworks the theme oflife on the road ... Donna Tartt contributes "Sleepytown", a deeply disturbing, if playful, interpretation of the Southern literary tradition. Sherman Alexie, Dorothy Allison and William T. Vollmann describe lives of random deprivation and give them dignity and weight' - Daily Telegraph 'The diversity of the form today is enormous, liberating and bold - the cowboys and Indians, playing mirthfully on American suburban lawns, are joined by sexual fetishists, bored housewives, gay heroes, cyberpunk villains and glorious grannies' - Elle % 'Place is a kéy with many ... D'Ambrosio's West; Eugenides' damp and earthy Irish garden; Mowry's inhumane,... Tovább

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'An altogether entrancing, refreshing, feisty collection' - Literary Revietv ' An excellent appraisal of the genre ... [Jay Mclnerney's] introduction prepares the reader for a continent celebrating its own diversity ... What of the 16 stories? ... somé are devastatingly good. Charles D'Ambrosio's "Her Real Name" touchingly reworks the theme oflife on the road ... Donna Tartt contributes "Sleepytown", a deeply disturbing, if playful, interpretation of the Southern literary tradition. Sherman Alexie, Dorothy Allison and William T. Vollmann describe lives of random deprivation and give them dignity and weight' - Daily Telegraph 'The diversity of the form today is enormous, liberating and bold - the cowboys and Indians, playing mirthfully on American suburban lawns, are joined by sexual fetishists, bored housewives, gay heroes, cyberpunk villains and glorious grannies' - Elle % 'Place is a kéy with many ... D'Ambrosio's West; Eugenides' damp and earthy Irish garden; Mowry's inhumane, debilitating slum: these are portraits which linger' - Guardian 'Traditional, well-crafted, poignant tales rub shoulders with ones from the inner city which read like bulletins from a war zone ... At their best [these stories] shake you up, take you somé place you've never been, and dump you into somé weird life you've never even imagined' - Mail on Sunday Published in hardback as Cowboys, Indians and Commuters: The Penguin Book of New American Voices Cover illustration by Hannah Tofts Vissza