Research Catalog

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Description

1. viii, 980 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life.
2. Since 1986, with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing "equisitely distilled stories" that "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life," to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and her most recent collection--Twilight of the Superheroes (2006).

Uniform title

1. Short stories. Selections

Alternative title

1. Short stories.
2. Transactions in a foreign currency.
3. Under the 82nd Airborne.
4. All around Atlantis.
5. Twilight of the superheroes.

Subject

1. Short stories
2. Short stories, American > 21st century
3. Short stories, American > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Short stories
2. short stories.
3. Nouvelles.

Contents

1. Flotsam -- What It Was LIke, Seeing Chris -- Rafe's Coat -- A Lesson in Traveling Light -- Days -- Transactions in a Foreign Currency -- Broken Glass -- A Cautionary Tale -- Under the 82nd Airborne -- The Robbery -- Presents -- The Custodian -- Holy Week -- In the Station -- The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor -- Across the Lake -- Someone to Talk To -- Tlaloc's Paradise -- Rosie Gets a Soul -- Mermaids -- All Around Atlantic -- Twilight of the Superheroes -- Some Other, Better Otto -- Like It or Not -- Window -- Revenge of the Dinosaurs -- The Flaw in the Design.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain

Awards (note)

1. PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2011.