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The World to Come: Stories
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ISBN10: 0525432310
ISBN13: 9780525432319
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 16 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780525432319
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 16 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Bursting with wicked humor and driven by an incomparable understanding of what it means to be human, The World to Come is the inimitable work of the most ambitious story writer in America (The Daily Beast). Now a major motion picture
Shepard traverses both borders and centuries, seamlessly inhabiting a multitude of disparate men and women, and giving voice to visionaries, pioneers, and secret misfits--from nineteenth-century explorers departing on one of the Arctic's most nightmarish expeditions to twentieth-century American military wives maintaining hope at home. Shepard's characters confront everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to colossal catastrophes, battling natural forces, the hazards of new technology, and their own implacable shortcomings. [Shepard] has a knack for compressing a novel's worth of life into 30 or 40 pages. --The Boston Globe
Shepard traverses both borders and centuries, seamlessly inhabiting a multitude of disparate men and women, and giving voice to visionaries, pioneers, and secret misfits--from nineteenth-century explorers departing on one of the Arctic's most nightmarish expeditions to twentieth-century American military wives maintaining hope at home. Shepard's characters confront everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to colossal catastrophes, battling natural forces, the hazards of new technology, and their own implacable shortcomings. [Shepard] has a knack for compressing a novel's worth of life into 30 or 40 pages. --The Boston Globe
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