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True Tales of American Life

Paul Auster, Paul Auster

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Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century.

Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century. The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets, joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence of 'Meditations' conclude the volume with a true and abiding sense of transcendence.The resultant anthology is both an enduring hymn to the strange everyday of contemporary American life and a masterclass in the art of storytelling.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
512
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
ISBN:
9780571210701
Published Date:
7/10/2002
Dimensions:
198mm x 127mm x 30mm
Weight:
331g
Category:
History of the Americas

RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780571210701


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