Why visit America: stories
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Beteilige Person: Baker, Matthew 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Henry Holt and Company 2020
Ausgabe:First edition
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Abstract:Fighting words -- Rites -- The transition -- Life sentence -- A bad day in Utopia -- Testimony of your majesty -- The sponsor -- One big happy family -- Appearance -- Lost souls -- The tour -- Why visit America -- To be read backward
"The citizens of Plainfield, Texas have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of our former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn't happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Baker's brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection WHY VISIT AMERICA"--
Beschreibung:2008
Umfang:354 Seiten
ISBN:9781250237200